When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life.

The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.

The key to life is imagination.

One's only real regret in life is the failure to act.

It's much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. Why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don't.

dating is like campaigning: you don't reveal who you really are or what you're really up to until you get elected.

Compassion is the most necessary ingredient in all relationships. Everything depends on it.

I may not remember, but I never forget.

Early on, my abandoning father had set the pattern of my love life on the loom of my subconscious.

I don't need an alarm clock, for habit is the best alarm there is.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casual

I've always felt alienated. I realized that I've been terrified my entire life. So I can identify that fear which drives so many of the people that I write about.

I don't care if people like me or not. Respect is more important.

Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.

But I gotta say, oh, baby, oh baby, why is this so familiar? Just met her, already feel like I know the real her.

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

You know, you’re pretty when you smile,” she said, patting the side of his cheek. “Fierce, woman. I am fierce.” “If you say so.

We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to greatness than most books on corporate strategy.

The silence of the envious is too noisy.

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.