There’s a Russian proverb: To taste the ocean, all you need is one gulp.

My mother and Alexis had said no more than ten words to each other. The long silences were deafening

The Lord Jesus Christ is a blameless Lamb.

Bad habit, lunch. A banana and a water biscuit is all any sane healthy man should need in the middle of the day.

Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.

If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.

How’ is always more important that ‘what.’ See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.

The moment you value yourself, the whole world values you.

As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it's inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes.

The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.