How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

judge not that ye be not judged

Somewhere along the line, the crazy youth hostelers I kept seeing everywhere stopped looking so crazy.

This was the kack’s cradle, icky-poo’s bassinet. It was Death and Diarrhea, singing duet.

Give me a few minutes, " he said, sounding tired but happy, "before I make good on my promises."She circled his nipple with her finger. "That's a pretty short recovery time.""You inspire me.

You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.

We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.

When you believe yourself to be master of your thoughts, you become so.

Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to be doing research.

A good game has to have a fun core, which is a one-sentence description of why it's fun.