When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters.
We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing in life, really. And I think we are all striving for it in different ways. I also believe very, very strongly that everybody is the heroheroine of hisher own life. I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters
I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.
Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.
In Ireland every place you visit and every person you meet has a story. And they love to tell you their stories. Everyone is interested in everything; in a land of storytellers, you will never be bored.
The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.
Poetry being. . . when we look from the center outward.
I have put together resources from the private and philanthropic communities to help provide a bridge because you've got to get the federal money. You've got to get the state money, but I'm going to do everything I can. And I will be with Flint all the way through this crisis in whatever capacity I am.
I prefer to be someone who has to confront his many fears instead of someone who has the illusion he doesn't fear anything