What a rude Lump our World is that we are so apt to dote upon.

The finest peculiarity of belief is that believers do not recognize themselves as believers.

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant ,and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing the Left.

I think speaking Italian affects your whole body movement. It's so musical and animated and passionate.

I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book.

The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.

If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.

Whenever people ask you where you're from and you say New Orleans, it's always going to create a conversation.

When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.