If I were stranded on a desert island, the one book I would have with me would is the Bible. There are enough stories in the Bible to keep you engaged for years.

The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.

That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.

Only the forgotten are truly dead.

We dream our dreams, and sometimes they take us to places we never anticipate. But they are our dreams, and we go where they lead.

Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.

The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.

The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.

Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.

The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

Graceful living

A twelve year old Ben Linus just gave me a chicken salad sandwich, how do you think I am?

I spend too much time on the Internet. But I do love knitting. Actually, I do more knitting when I'm working.

I definitely know the minister Honorable Louis Farrakhan. But I don't really believe in organized religion like that. I don't know what it does for people in the long run.

I am driving an unfamiliar vehicle down a narrow road I've never seen before. Do you really want to be pissing me off right now?

I just thank God I don't live in a trailer.

A million feelings. A thousand thoughts. A hundred memories. All for one person.

Any resistance is not only normal but necessary-it is part of the creative process.

I've seen, all too often in my career, people coming in to lead agencies and organizations and trying to impose change from the top down. Never works. You never have enough time.