There is no economic law that says that everyone, or even most people, automatically benefit from technological progress.

I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people.

I'm fighting Miguel Cotto on May 5th because Miss Pac Man is ducking me

I look into my own black heart.

Just lock myself in a room, stop answering emails, stop answering the phone and I come out with something.

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers.

Giving appreciations, praise, and gratitudes feels good and puts good vibes in the environment.

Where you're from only matters in relation to where you are.

We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.

Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn't under­stand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away.