The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live long enough, as you're increasingly likely to do, you may well join it.

Who one believes God to be is most accurately revealed not in any credo but in the way one speaks to God when no one else is listening.

physical disability looms pretty large in one's life. But it doesn't devour one wholly. I'm not, for instance, Ms. MS, a walking, talking embodiment of a chronic incurable degenerative disease.

My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved well enough.

Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.

If the very thought of taking off all your clothes in the middle of the Washington Mall during a school holiday makes you blush, you haven't even begun to dream what it feels like to publish a book.

I will write myself into well-being.

God enters the world through those of us who are willing to let God participate fully in our lives.

Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.

In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.

One of the blessings that comes with parental territory is that children tug you into experiences you're pretty sure you'd never otherwise contemplate.

Love in fools is better than hate in the wise.

You dance?”“I think that might be overly optimistic, ” he said. “I do something. I’ll try not to hurt you.

It's fine to have a dream girl, but you should ask yourself…would you be her dream boy?

And to this day, my Mom is my role model.

It is in their eyes that their magic resides.

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name

It was great working with Kevin Smith - just a dream.

And of course I'm in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up in the air,Gone with the wind-

If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.

What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is the quality of communication.