If we are willing, the experience of grief can deepen and widen our ability to participate in life.

The real meaning of mercy is that it can look on failure and still see a future.

Be confident, be bold! These are your life greatest strength for success.

The world is only as small as your mind makes it.

Religion makes kind people say unkind things: "I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children." They wouldn't do that if God didn't tell them to do so.

Οur own distrust somewhat justifies the deceit of others.

What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?

I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

I love magazines and film critics, so I eat it up. I'm not one of those people who says 'I never read anything.' I generally read all of it.

I got a king-sized bed. I don't know any kings, but if one came over, I guess he'd be comfortable.

It's really remarkable to see two candidates,[Donald] Trump and [Marco] Rubio, making things up and putting things out for which there is no evidence and no basis.