even if I do not see the fruits, the struggle has been worthwhile. If my life has taught me anything, it is that one must fight.

It is so much easier sometimes to sit down and be resigned than to rise up and be indignant.

And please punish Jenny. You could strike her dead. Amen.” Jenny blinked. “I’m no expert on this, but… are you supposed to pray for someone to be struck dead?

If you are with someone who is awesome and having a good time, you can sit at a bus station and still have fun.

It is not an opinion that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal fact that the president is a war criminal.

And Finally I put down the last and the best advice I knew, on growing older. 'Stand up straight and try not to get fat.

My life provides me with these images that become expressions of my daily experience.

What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?

As elected leaders, we must each recommit ourselves to work together toward putting our country on a prosperous, sustainable path and restoring Americas promise as a land of opportunity.

Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.

He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.