It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple

Deprivation is the mother of poetry.

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

You can chase a bird from your porch, but you can not take away its ability to fly.

Every prayer is a wish fulfilled in due time.

Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.

Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

The line between pride in our work and neurotic obstinacy is a narrow one. We make our recommendations clear. But we do not grudge our clients the right to the final say. It is their money.

My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities

I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

The gaps between the forms worry me. I can never get these spaces right.

I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.