We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times were until I left, but I guess that's the way of it

A small profit is better than a big loss.

Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better

One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children

A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world

I learnt how to hunt rattlesnakes with an eagle for Serena.

Don't love anything that can be taken away.

But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.

It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)

You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.

It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start

Half of what I write is imaginative reality. The other half is realized impossibilities. Blended into one, these make a fantasy.

Life is an intricate play with actors waiting for an explanation. Each added act confers a new interpretation of the story. ( "Waiting for the pieces to fall into place" )

Seriously, who curses you with their dying breath and says, I hope your eye twitches!

People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.

I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card. But as Mark Twain once said, 'You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word'.

I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.

If you wait until you have to change, you may have waited too long.

I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.