Every writer has his own voice. Other than that I'm always trying to do change-ups and publishers haven't always been happy about that.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

A house can have integrity, just like a person, ' said Roark, 'and just as seldom.

Sometimes animals are more human than people and other times people are more animal than animals

'Hamilton' is, of course, closely tied to the Obamas because Lin first performed the opening number at a White House poetry jam.

As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts.

A consumer is not a moron. She's your wife. Don't insult her intelligence, and don't shock her.

My days are so busy with school and football, it's not often that I get out, anyway. But when I do, I like to meet people.

And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?

If you practice the holy exercise of Spiritual Communion a good many times each day, within a month you will see yourself completely changed.

He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.

My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family.