I like beautiful writing, pain, unexpected humor, and the message that, at the last second, people are going to be kind to each other. It almost doesn't matter what the genre is.

Jean Thompson's short-story collection 'Who Do You Love' is a beautiful book, but a hell of a sad one.

If someone begins to sing, do not maintain eye contact. The general advice given to fellow travellers is thus: leg it.

I see people teaching how to make an impact, but i don't want to make dents, i want to walk lightly on the earth, grateful for universal grace.

Saying of the ProphetOppressionWhen oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest.

Acceptance” is the most beautiful word in the English language.

You'll never catch a nudist with his pants down.

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.

The first religious experience that I can remember is getting under the nursery table to pray that the dancing mistress might be dead before we got to the Dancing Class.

Neural scientists at M.I.T. say they can plant false memories in your brain. No, that is not new. Politicians have been doing that for years. They’re called campaign promises.

Everyone wants peace - and they will fight the most terrible war to get it.

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and 20s.