I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?
I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden.
Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.
Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.
There are moments when it frightens us, threatening to expose us as inauthentic. Well, the big-time impostors we read about in literature run this risk constantly, flirting with destruction, not just humiliation or embarrassment. It's a spectacle that we can't help but find compelling, and it involves a certain level of courage that we sneakily admire, perhaps.
Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
Nobody uses his car in New York, because so many people use it that traffic is congested and unbearably slow.
[Hamas] lives on their rifles and bombs.
President [Barack] Obama has been an unbelievable divider of this country, whether it's rich and poor; white and black.