You are your best thing

Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself

From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time.

I don't think I knew any of my father's friends - male friends - by their real names. I remember them only by their nicknames.

Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When to love something and when to quit. If you don't know how, you can end up out of control or controlled by some outside thing like that hard case last winter.