I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.

I want to be violated by insight.

We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.

It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.

Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.

Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.

I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

Don't let your dreams rust! Listen to your youthful bells ringing loud inside of you.

If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.

One: balance the budget now, not later. Two: Get Americans jobs by ending illegal immigration and making legal immigration harder. Lastly: Impose term limits.

Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

I don't mind being called a liberal. I just don't really think it's true.

I still think we are smart enough to not destroy planet Earth, our only home.

I'm constantly having doubts and moments of depression and then excitement and then back into the slough of despond.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

I love being under pressure. Even the pressure put on me by the media. That is how you outdo yourself.