The sight of her made him understand why he'd lost his faith in God.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.

Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?

It meant that she belonged some place. She was a Brooklyn girl with a Brooklyn name and a Brooklyn accent. She didn't want to change into a bit of this and a bit of that.

Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.

Once you sacrifice your rights, it's hard to get those rights protected again.

My parents are both from Vermont, very old-fashioned New England. We heated our house with wood my father chopped. My mom grew all of our food. We were very underexposed to everything.

Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts; in company, I am sober again.

Small business is where jobs come from. Two-thirds of our jobs come from small businesses.

Here I am! Now what are your other two wishes

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.