As long as we do violence to other animals, we’ll keep on doing violence to ourselves.

Was there anything quite so painful, so fraught with the possibilities of hurt, as gift giving within a family?

Soon would come the night in which there was no more work – not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart.

Still, for all that, her life had lacked passion. The demons had never come for her.

Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.

Just because you pretend the universe doesn't have teeth doesn't mean you won't get eaten in the end.

The body was an organic machine, period, and God was a figment of its fitful imagination.

But men are such strange creatures, really. I think most of them would rather we weren’t around at all, so they could just spend time mooning over each other. Hero worship and all that stuff.

The past is the past. It’s the present we should worry about.

It was a failure of pedagogical nerve, she reminded herself, to give up on a student.

All desire, Tracy had had occasion since to think, is to some degree monstrous.

You may have read the poetry, but you haven't lived it. And that's what makes the difference.

Your life is your masterpiece. In-script an era.

Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!

I get paid to do the thing I love most, and maybe that makes blending into the crowd impossible sometimes, but I wouldnt trade it for the world.

Every life, I think, has that potential because I believe each life is a gift of God... because God is love.

You can never escape me. Bullets don't harm me. Nothing harms me. But I know pain. I KNOW pain. Sometimes I share it. With someone like you.

Despite the fact that feminists say they're not getting a fair deal, women are still very powerful.

You always want to keep your look clean and elegant, but you don't have to do the safe black-dress route. Have some fun! Wear something colorful with a hint of sparkle.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

And my girlfriend, she's FAT! How fat? She's so fat she wears two watches-one for each time zone!