A story is an invitation, and a challenge, and a choice.

To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly and wittily.

Listen into the silences where the best words begin.

One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.

We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations.

Battling terrorism must go beyond belligerence vs. isolation.

Lydia was the kind of friend whom people referred to as a 'party favor' -- always fun to be around but she doesn't have any patience for suffering unless it's her own.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.

When I did the vocals, I always became so angry and pissed off.

It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

When you help make people healthier, it makes the nation healthier, it makes the world healthier, it makes the economy healthier.

When a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him.