...stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them.

Figs are delicious with soft cheese and ham, Toast is quite scrumptious with butter and jam, Eggs are improved by parsley and salt, But milkshakes are best with strawberries and malt.

You can't write a sory until you've felt. Breathe it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. That's why you come here. To live your story.

You have a college degree? You can barely talk.

White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.

The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.

Our choices at all levels-individual, community, corporate and government-affect nature. And they affect us.

I always knew I was going to come home at some point, and I wanted to have a name for myself.

I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.

This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming of something else.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

Inspiration is not purely passive, but does favor the prepared mind.

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.