As anybody with two older sisters can tell you, a closed door is like a red rag to a bull. It cannot go unchallenged.

Dreamless nights, I knew, can be the most troubling, since you come back not knowing where you've been or what you've done.

I do not encourage early morning chirpiness, even in those whom I know and love. It is generally a sign of a sloppy mind, and is not to be encouraged.

You can learn from a glance at anyone's library, not what they are, but what they wish to be.

Growing up is like that, I suppose. The strings fall away and you're left standing on your own.

It's amazing what the discovery of a corpse can do for one's spirits.

Love is love, wherever you may find it—even when it's covered in feathers.

I could tell he was becoming sulky, as boys and men do when they're caught bluffing. And I ignored him, as girls and women do when they catch them out.

True charity, I had had discovered, consists of swallowing an invisible flaming sword.

and sometimes I sitdown at my typewriterand I thinknot of someonecause there isn't anyoneto thinkabout and i wonderis it worth it

Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.

The Spirit inspired the Word and therefore He goes where the Word goes. The more of God's Word you know and love, the more of God's Spirit you will experience.

Violence can be a gift. Violence belongs to everyone.

The brain is not and cannot be the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.

Girls, do not scrub and cook and scour until you have no time left to plant a tree, or vine or flower.

Yes, I do agree we need health care reform; however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.

Rock stars did not invent burning out. They just do it louder.