...tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That’s why we’ve got to make sure we pass it on.

Only Certain offered no enticements, for she knew nothing could ease the pain. Not books or photography or food. Not even love.

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation.

The lovelorn came, too. The alone. The lunatics-they were brought here, sometimes. Got their name from the moon, it was only fair the moon had a chance to fix things.

Don't be afraid of the shadows, it only means there's a light nearby.

I'm a New Yorker; my oven is used for storage.

I like playing with a popular cliché and making it my own by half-embracing it, half-disemboweling it.

Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.

My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet.

Personally I think we're over-specialized. Why it's getting so we have experts who concentrate only on the lower section of a specimen's left ear.

My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious.