Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.

Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.

Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.

You don't know me, but I know about you...I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.

If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.

I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.

But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.

So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.

When my baby was born I had to know how to save her in case she fell in the pool or something like that. I went to one of these nursing places to learn how to take care of the child.

Mr. President, putting it bluntly, wouldn't we just be continuing a bloodbath that already exists in Cambodia if we voted the 222 million in aid?

Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it’s like an excuse for Halloween everyday.

The poet is stepping out of the airplane.

Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.

You don't catch the knuckleball, you defend against it.

To play your colors by eye is worse than playing the piano by ear.

My job, challenges, and simple things like waking up, going to my patio, and seeing that an hibiscus or a camellia opened during the night. It just makes me happy.

It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.

The secret of being more vitally alive is to be more aware. Starting today, from this moment, become aware of awareness!