Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know.

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.

There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.

Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.

Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.

You know, right often, the body is the best thing we’ve got going for us. A body itself is a shiny object. Something!

One unsuccessful attempt to success is a major attempt to success

I'd love to...but only with you.

Get out of bed. Go to classes. Try to be normal, and pretty soon all that grief you carry...it gets easier.

I single handedly revolutionised women's roles in the WWE, before me all women were eye candy.

President Jimmy Carter inherited an impossible situation - and he and his advisers made the worst of it.

Coming closer to home, there is so much of jealousy, pride, arrogance, and carping criticism; fathers who rise in anger over small, inconsequential things and make wives weep and children fear.

The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.

It surprises me how much children like me, you know? If they look at me as an example, I have a big responsibility.

Self-awareness can't be built on looking at our pluses and minuses before we look at the most basic essence of what we are.

After a desperate fight, to know to congratulate your opponent, if he has beaten you, to shake his hand and go for a drink with him, in my eyes these things are particularly important.