people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

The mightiest flame of fire lies in positive mindset.

They wore their strange beauty like war paint.

He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.

I would love to meet with the Black Caucus, it's great, the Congressional Black Caucus, I think it's great.

It is necessary first in the practice of Kundalini yoga to determine what the dharma is. There is a dharma for you.

I realize I look very hip hop but I'm really more emo with a definite Brazilian flavor.

Everything in life is a risk! I mean, you walk out onto the street and it's a risk! Don't you think?

When you feed the big dog, it does whatever you tell him to do.

Never forgive at the ballot box!