I have no way of portraying the lives of others. I portray my own.

I still dream of the day when I will take a photograph so beautiful that it can be called love.

What I really do is make portraits of the soul.

collecting secrets was and is crucial to solving foreign policy puzzles.

Attitude is everything.

Henry held up his taco- formerly Vlad's- and grinned. " Little known fact, gentlemen. Tacos are the food of genius."pg248 Henry to Vlad & Joss

If you delight more in God’s gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do.

Your passion is your qualification. It's your leading qualification.

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

I am a very deep person. I run very deep in real life.

Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt with.