Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.

Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.

Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.

Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.

When you are always ready for the worst, then the worst is likely to show up

Every time the Lord grants you His mercy and favor, doors will be opened for you.

Death like style is the removal of rubbish.

This isn't about your reputation. Our job right now is to make sure that there to ARE future historians.

Hunger is the best sauce.

Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college.

Don't be caught up in your outer world. Pay greater attention to your inner world

After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants in that they have a propensity for claiming everything.

I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49 and turn it into a movie.

The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that.