Life will throw all kinds of obstacles our way. It's our job to scramble over them and hunt for the little miracles tucked away, then leave some reminders for the people that follow behind us.

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

Some love stories has no end, no path or no name, but they are 'love stories' too.

Language communicates in terms of what is already know

The sea stood up before him, foaming, torn by lightning bolts, opening terrifying mouths that gobbled up the dense, hard black rains unleashed by the sky like hate.

but right now it's Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan all the way.

Remember, it's not what you do but that you do something that matters.

In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.

On this path, it is only the first step that counts.

Ifyou believe in something, work nights and weekends, it won't feel like work.

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.