You could die tomorrow, you don't think you should kiss her today?

Sometimes you take all my words away from me.

I never knew it was possible to be so miserable in so many ways.

Forget everything else. Forget everyone else. You're exactly my kind of girl.

But who names a starship the Icarus? What kind of man possess that much hubris, that he dares it to fall?

Only your faith can make your fears go away.

Amidst of all these darkness, soul wrenching pain and disappointments, you have a heart that still believes in love, trust and second chances. And that my dear, is what makes you so beautiful.

A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings.

There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.

All writers steal from their own lives.

She was suddenly aware of him in a way she hadn't been before. Hayward was good-looking in a sweet and wholesome way.

Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of longnecks and short tales.

I love titles and organizing chains of ideas. I like that very much.

Race and class reinforce one another in housing. Our America Divided story, "A House Divided," shows that racist discrimination in housing is alive and well in the Big Apple.

Legends don't have to make sense. They just have to be beautiful. Or at least interesting.