The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.

You're not traveling if you already know everything.

A risk is a risk because it's avoidable.

She found herself wondering at what point in her life she had ceased to be Gulliver and had become the strings holding him to the ground.

She simply didn't have an interest in men anymore. It wasn't that she didn't like them, she just knew how easily they broke.

I walked across a bridge that doesn't exist. And after that, being scared just didn't seem so important anymore.

We are wasting our youth holding cold devices while we should be holding one another’s warm hands.

Pain, or pleasure. I could not tell where one ended and the other began.

An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.

Meddling, smug, stupid little..." "She likes me! They always play hard to get when they like me!" "No. You do not understand. I could not have done it because I can not read or write.

Don't just put it off and think about it!

Politicians must let voters know what they think about issues before the election. Judges should not.

If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

Even if it's other people, like on MySpace pages, we're just as collective of enthusiasts now. That seems to be the world we're in.

I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.