To be a kid is to be invisible and to listen, and to interpret things that aren't necessarily meant for you to hear--because how else do you find out about the world?

At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed.

Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess.

His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him.

The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering.

The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?

Let the sunrise of every morning bring you the light of love and joy.

C'mon, let's get out of here. I have a future to attend to.

Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.

If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording.

Catch-and-release fishing is an ecological necessity, not my preference. The practice smacks of bad faith, an inauthentic act.

The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him his is not.

Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church

Look. All books are weird when you think about it.... It goes without saying that real life is also weird.

I saw endless depths of brown, the depths I'd fallen into so many times. No red rings. Dimitri...was not a Strigoi. And he was weeping.

The Democratic Party's rigidly pro-choice stance is one of the more unyielding positions in contemporary American politics.