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There are no shortcut to losing weight. Just hard work and dedication, hard work and dedication.

Sentences are like just caught fish. Spunky today, stinky tomorrow.

I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies.

Life starts in nature and returns to nature.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Even during negotiation with HAL, Dassault felt that the cost with which the HAL will produce will be far higher than the aircraft produced in France. That was the reality.

One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.

Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically followed his lead, whether we were wealthy, working-class or in between. We spent a decade feasting on easy money, don't-pay-as-you-go consumerism and a metastasizing celebrity culture.

I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.

Racism is not first and foremost a skin problem. It is a sin problem. See, when you believe that racism is a skin problem, you can take three hundred years of slavery, court decisions, marches, and the federal government involvement and still not get it fixed right.

A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.

I try not to make it personal, and I don't care about partisan politics one way or the other.

God uses people to block opportunities you should have never considered in the first place.

I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

My height was not a deterrent, and it did not make me the person I am. It was like my long brown hair or my brown eyes - a physical characteristic that differentiated me from quite a percentage of the population.

I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.

This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations. These differences are tremendously important in the spiritual formation of human beings.

I don't know if I discovered I had any talent. It was dogged persistence. I had to have the music.

I like the whole package to be good, It's a rarity that that happens, so I end up not working a lot.

The conscious imprinting that happens between, say, 10 and 16 is huge. I think it's so important for me as a writer to stay open to the memories of that period because they were so formative.