When there is a gap—between your face and your race, between the baby and the mother, between your body and yourself—you are expected, everywhere you go, to explain the gap.

If I am going to be a monster, the least I could do is be well fed!

It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money.

Your fright is in your lies but your delight is in your ties, So better get together and fight for the right.

Sung Win smiled to himself, enjoying the tension across his shoulders and the way his pulse beat in his veins. All life involved risk.

In one day, I have times where I'm feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I'm the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.

Miracles is the sort of book that once you've read it you'll wonder where it's been all your life

She was afraid, but she couldn't just sit around waiting for someone to save her. She had to try to save herself, try to figure it out.

Your life is a work of art, a craft to be carefully mastered. For patience has replaced time, and you are your own destination.

Math is really about the human mind, about how people can think effectively, and why curiosity is quite a good guide.