if there's one thing consistent about language it is that it is constantly changing. The only languages that do not change are those whose speakers are dead.

Money is always on its way somewhere; we are only a way station. What we do with it while it's in our keeping will say much about us - as will the direction it takes after we speed it on its way.

Cutting edges are always a little rough.

Although we have not assigned God a sexual orientation, a height, or eye color, we have thought nothing of assigning a gender and a religion (God always belongs to the same one we do).

He framed a question inwardly to his vanity: 'Will this be tougher than I thought?

I always finish off my look with a spritz of Vera Wang Pink Princess.

It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor.

What is your position at the company? Right back.

I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.

There are two kinds of brave men: those who are brave by the grace of nature, and those who are brave by an act of will.

I became a writer because I am the youngest of six children. I listen; I observe. I'm camouflaged as a moth. Mothers are unseen. It helps me write.

If there's one thing I've learned in the last few months, it's that sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump.

So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.

It is proof of sincerity, which I value above all things; as, between those who practice it, falsehood and malice work their efforts in vain.