All politicians know that every 'temporary' political initiative promised as a short-term poultice stays on the books forever.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

I tear at the air with glass nailsthat have learned to scalemountains of mirrors.

When other girls were dreaming about love, she dreamt of love too, but in an entirely different context - the ones they took for granted.

ability is of no value without discipline. Winning has no style or substance without humility.

I keep up with everything in terms of health, fitness, nutrition, skin care, hair, nails. Really, everything. I'm an avid reader of every women's health newsletter from every hospital in the country.

Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)

I grew up flying over oceans and moving and sailing.

Faith doesn't begin until reason stops.

I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.

Yes, and I’m sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.

A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.