When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Blessings come in disguise. And challenges can be a blessing.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

I would say chemistry between two people is very powerful. You have to fight to keep it, but if you don't have it, you can't manufacture it.

Monsters can live inside a person. Sometimes they know about it. More often they don't.

Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war.

The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.

The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them.

I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps.

Work your fingers to the bone and what do you get? Boney fingers.

May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

The glance of Love is crystal clear.

Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.