“Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without touch. It is understanding without research. It is certaint...”

“When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.”

“I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of ...”

“I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!”

“Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.”

“I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.”

“The seeking of a mate shall be undertaken with due preparation and care. A life-bond should never be contemplated as a light thing--unlike a legal union or sanctified joining, the sealing of souls ...”

“I dont have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women arent iPhone apps that I download and discard!”

“In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." ...”