All the world's not a stage.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

There is no love that is not an echo.

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Writing therapy is my form of healing. Try and detach yourself from painful memories by infusing characters and then stepping back.

Annual planning cycles doom you to short term fixes for long term problems

I don't know why, but in my career and in my life, I often find myself in situations where I am the only girl among boys.

Are all your stars shining?

Let's never forget what made us great as a nation. It's not diversity, it's liberty.

All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.

There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.

In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.

There is only one way to win a war which has begun: To stop it immediately; that is the way!

Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel.