When I was growing up, there were no cell phones and no roads into the bush, and so if something happened to your plane, that was serious. Nobody was coming to rescue you.

Resisting and avoiding pain sucks energy-and time. The more you let yourself feel those minute-and-a-half hells, the quicker you'll start feeling those minute-and-a-half happinesses.

The most reliable path to glory is base brute effort.

If you need somebody to dig up rocks eight hours a day underwater, call me.

There are still things out there in the universe to contemplate and spend our lives chasing.

I've managed to create intimacy with people I know, and people that I don't know. The longer things stay inside of us, the more we think they are black or tainted, but they're really not.

If you want to write in a mature and interesting way, you have to have sympathy for everyone that's involved.

You see things really different when your father is so intimately, so indisputably in charge of your continued existence on the planet.

There's a kind of intimacy that happens between a mother and an only child. Which only gets more intimate when it's between a mother and only daughter.

I'm pretty much of the Shakespearean school. Dialogue is character. How we speak is who we are.

My mom was a social worker. I had a pretty good idea of what the authorities can do when a parent's not around.

This has serveral consequences, starting with screwing over most cryptography algorithms--translation: all your bank account are belong to us--

Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright.

A positive attitude may not solve all our problems but that is the only option we have if we want to get out of problems.-Subodh Gupta author "Stress Management a holistic approach -5 steps plan".

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

I am told that very early on in this transition process, to expect that [Donald] Trump will announce his nominee for the Supreme Court.

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

If Jesus didn't rise from the dead, an even greater miracle happened: 12 relatively uneducated guys changed the world and were martyred to protect a lie.

Each year represents new challenges and obstacles. You have to adjust.

We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.