life is not about being fearless its about controlling your fears

She felt like a baton getting passed along in a relay race, completely devoid of any control over her destiny.

It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

You’ve traveled this far on the back of every mistake.

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

Hope has a place in a lover's heart.

I was the guy on the swim team entertaining the bus on the way to the meets.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.

Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.

When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.