They know their crime, " she said. "They know their shame.

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to get there. The wise ones follow their angels while they may.

If the bird was made, it chose to be made. It's here because it chooses to be with you.

They say that secrets live at the bottom of a wine bottle. Mama had made it there the night before, slow glass by slow glass, but she'd never spoken a word.

He was furious with himself for having lived these last days on a wish. On a lie. A kiss does not make the future. Love alone does not make a life.

Her heart was an invalid convinced that it would not survive many more sunsets.

Sometimes things don't work out and the reason has nothing to do with you, or how good you are.

I hadn't the personality to be a long-term Success.

From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.

Jazz was home. It created a hunger within me.

Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.

We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

I just can't see myself with a man on the ropes and just to prove how bad I am - and I see in his eyes, his head, he's hopeless - and I'm just deliberately hitting. I don't do that.

We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world.

No writer, however popular, disdains a reader, however humble.