Nobody special had come around to replace Duane, and she was moping, going to bed alone every night with a box of Velveeta and a fork.

if you have to wait for it to roar out ofyou, then wait patiently.if it never does roar out of you, do something else.

While the big events of our lives create the impetus for change, it is the moment-by- moment choices that mold and shape us.

I think humor can be an effective way of getting the point across, but there are definitely times where I just write very earnestly.

You could split hairs and bring up words like 'doo-wop' and terms like 'soul' or 'R&B', but I think pop music is what you want it to be - that's why it's pop.

I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to read.

The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead... The past lies in flames.

Within our lifetime, we can remember a time when Islamism wasn't the dominant form of discourse or the aim should be to minimise the absolutists within any religious community and contain them.

I'm going to take the high road because the low road is so crowded.

I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security.