Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up.

Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.

Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.

Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself.

Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.

We children sat transfixed before that moon our mother had called forth from the waters. When the moon had reached its deepest silver, my sister, Savannah, though only three, cried aloud to our mother, to Luke and me, to the river and the moon, "Oh, Mama, do it again!" And I had my earliest memory.

I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.