Words are the only bread we can really share.

The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.

Laughter is a virus that infects you with humanity.

If you were born to be a nail, you had to be hammered.

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

Everybody knew that being dead could put you in a terrible mood.

Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

Is it a crime to want to be good? she cried

Our power comes from the earth

I am in the earth and the earth is in me

They breathed. They felt their lungs fill the sky, and they let the dark clouds inside them flow out. Then they connected to the earth.

Though I exist in the realms of day and night, I'm only truly alive in the moments between.

In stillness I notice how time and space disappear. All there is is the present moment and my willingness to listen...to allow the stillness to speak-Eileen Fisher

I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateral consequences whenever possible.

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong

I get a million ideas a day and I don't put too much weight on any one of them. The ones that really stick in my head are the ones I end up doing.

The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor must convincingly portray something that she is not.

I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.

Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.

History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.