When I was a kid... I needed to belong.

Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.

You'd be surprised just how fast you can close the door on your past. Learn needlepoint. Make a stained-glass lamp.

Don't search dreams in the sky, they need strong footage on the earth.

Maddock stabbed his fried egg with his fork, and bright yellow yolk bled all over his plate like a sunshine hemorrhage.

You know, Ms. Morgan, that was your mother you just hammered," Mr. Solomon said.

Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working.

Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.

States Rights died at Appomattox.

Live your life by a compass, not a clock.