I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.

Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art.

Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.

No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.

Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them snap out of this mentality.

Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.

Anger is one of those emotions that doesn't follow the letter of the law. It speaks before it thinks. It rears up on its hind legs and charges.

When you're not sure your anger is justified, the thing to do is ask yourself exactly where it's coming from.

Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.

He didn't realize that simply by mingling among various lunch tables, he was befriending people in different crowds, weaving together the fringes of the cafeteria.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.

Breaking into a country signals quite reliably a willingness to break yet more of the invaded country's laws.

The influence of coffee in stimulating the genital organs is notorious.

The constitution expects every man to do his duty; and when he fails the law urges him; or should he do too much; the same master rebukes him.

Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves.

If you want to talk about the pollution coming from Ohio, please don't leave out the pollution coming your way from China.

America needs rebooting.