The world's waistlines are expanding, but it's an epidemic of a larger issue in terms of our bounty having become our burden.

The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

I hum some secret place into being, thinking of this other me, the one that only I can see, a girl called She, who is not We, a girl who I will never be.

Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

I'm not alone in having obese people in my circle and in my family. I have loved morbidly obese people, and I don't approach obesity with revulsion or judgment but with empathy and compassion.

Art isn't a product. It's an experience

The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.

the only thing left to do is love

If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead.

How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.

Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Living by faith, living by hope.

A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within.

A man's wisdom is measured by his hope.

Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.

I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything.

The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.

First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil.

It's taken me a long time to learn to accept the risks and just be willing to try it over and over again.

I'm just trying to do my best every day, hoping that I have done my best every day, and its very easy in a way, but also it's not that easy. Every day counts.