Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden.

Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

Love is a powerful painkiller.

Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.

The market is the only critic that matters.

The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them.

Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.

He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her.

God created everyone uniquely and for a purpose, and not to be on this earth as a passive spectator

Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?

How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood When fond recollection presents them to view.

If you don't believe you can do something then you can't.

I've always been fascinated by the concept of time.

Everything happens for a reason, but they all lessons.

Lenin's ideal was to build a nation's production effort according to the model of the post office.

There's nobody who's had a resume like [Hillary Clinton] that's run for president.

If anything caused ISIS, it was the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.