That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

Peace is the inner silence that calms all outer noises.

You must learn to overcome your cowardice, and put God, His principles and the things of His kingdom, that you are called to establish, first in your life

The Great Commission is a devotion to study of Scriptures, preaching and teaching of the gospel of salvation.

I guess what's most important is that we chose to live with our hearts open and to let our experiences show us the way towards our brightest days.

The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.

Assists is what Earvin is all about. That's what my whole life has been, assisting others.

The Wire' is very realistic and based on real events.

Love never goes away; it just changes form.