“God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries ...”

“Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.”

“Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.”

“Music can change the world because it can change people.”

“One Life, with each other, Sisters, Brothers...”

“There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.”

“The words I Love You kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.”

“It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a man's body is accessible to you as your own, the strange shapes and textu...”

“his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me was far more intimate than copping a feel could ever be.”

“She doesn't recognize the numbernone of her friends use their phones as phones anymore.”

“Than Shwe ordered the confiscation of all cell phones and laptops and computers so no reportage could come out of Burma. It seemed clear that a demon, something diabolical, rather than something co...”

“I did plenty of jobs that I hated. I was a bank teller and terrible at it. I parked cars, a valet. I answered phones. I somehow avoided being a waiter. I knew I wouldn't be able to keep the order s...”