I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.

Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.

You don't know me, but I know about you...I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.

Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.

If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.

I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.

But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.

So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.

Anabelle knew she was feeling too much, too fast. That was dangerous. Especially with a guy like Giorgio.

It wasn't that he didn't love me, because I knew he did. As for me, I loved him so much it hurt.

I love the flow of the game. There’s a certain fluidity to basketball. I don’t enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.

The most challenging thing is how to portray someone that is so well known that people still recall him in a very precise way.

[Andrea] Leadsom has compassion ... a real steel and a real determination and that velvet glove of compassion that she really cares about people.

Offering democracy to an Arab is like bringing a horse to a steakhouse.

I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.

Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being.

Under our [constitutional system] - either we're going to have to rethink our Constitution, or we're going to have to rethink our process of decision-making.