People cannot endure inexplicable worthlessness

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.

The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather.