Close Dept. of Education, but don't dismantle public schools.
I think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state.
I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.
It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.
Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.
Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers.
Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write
Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects.
I hope to see the two great religions, Islam and Christianity, hand-in-hand, embracing each other. Then the Torah and the Bible and the Qur’an will become books supporting one another being read everywhere, and respected by every nation … [I am] looking forward to seeing Muslims read the Torah and the Bible.
What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
You are not happy when you feel happy, you are happy when you are happy.