Writers fly with imaginary wings.

Writing fiction is one of the greatest forms of empathy. It's not enough to simply write from the perspective of your characters...you have to feel what they feel.

A Sufi will say – Everything is beautiful, even the dirt that clings beneath my feet.

It’s funny. From up here, the destruction seems to fade. Almost as if like people, in time, even the world can heal itself.

...The sea... some have said is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.

As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor

Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.

Each moment you are alive is a gem. It needs you to breathe gently for the miracles to be displayed.

It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars.

If enough Americans determine I could do a better job in public office, and Mrs. Nugent and my beloved family agree, there is no limit what I am willing to do for my country.