Every man is the son of his own works.

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.

Hilda Solis

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Frank Crane

A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.

Bern Williams

All Stories are True.

John Edgar Wideman

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

Joyce Maynard

Any walk through a park that runs between a double line of mangy trees and passes brazenly by the ladies toilet is invariably known as Lover's Lane.

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What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.

Jean Baudrillard

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Thomas Jefferson

The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes.

Galileo Galilei

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld