Without my relatives, I am but a thread; together, we form a colorful and elaborate Persian carpet.

Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.

My parents are highly evolved worriers. ... If worrying were an Olympic sport, my parents' faces would have graced the Wheaties box a long time ago.

Writing is such a powerful tool. I believe everyone should be writing.

In America, Christmas is the king of all holidays. To be left out of Christmas is the ultimate minority experience.

My father's motto has always been 'Room in the heart, room in the house.' As charming as this sounds, it translates into a long line for the bathroom and extra loads of laundry for my mother.

Everyone except gamblers knows that gambling never pays. ... Losing, like winning, only increased his determination to play.

Elinor Lipman is to tweets what Shakespeare is to sonnets.

For me, writing clarifies things. It gives meaning, and it makes me see the connections.

My dad always says that kindness is our religion and if we treat everybody the way we would like to be treated, the world would be a better place.

... even though we belong to three different religions. We are alike in so many more ways than we are different.

Life is so sweet. A man will even kiss the a** of his enemy to have his head spared

When we can return to the roads of our past and see nothing but the beautiful view, then we've truly moved on.

Once you try to do more than your equipment is capable of doing you get yourself in trouble and you start wrecking.

There is a very blurry line between the things we can't do and the things that we can.

I went down to my baby's house and I sit down on her steps. She said, now come on in now, you know, my husband just left.

Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival.

There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.

My lips are just forming his name when his fingers lock around my throat.

Because women and girls are not valued equally as human beings, they are treated as less than such. Female genital mutilation is one example of this that has to be stopped.

Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.