we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well.

None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner

Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us.

Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.