I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.

The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.

In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining.

One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law firm and also worked part-time at night, often working until 11:00 P.M.

I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.

Later that night she picked the polish offwith her front teeth until the bed you sharedfor seven years seemed speckled with glitterand blood.

We being satiate with continual wars, let the desire of peace a little move us.

Never lose your curious mind.

When you invite people to share in your miracle, you create future allies during rough weather.

I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.

We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

To me, as a visual artist, I don't want to get into the theory of Buddhism. There are many Buddhism theories and they fight each other, like Christians as well.

I need you more than I need freedom.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth.