But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

She lives like tomorrow isn't coming and yesterday never happened.

If you have to hang a man you could have put on a better trail, you aren't entitled to own a rope.

Eat few suppers, and you'll need few medicines.

Fortune confounds the wise, And when they least expect it turns the dice.

I feel like there's this weird thing that as a feminist band you get put in this role as ambassadors.

People who think and say we more often than I are a lot more likely to succeed.

May the shadow of the Almighty ever rest on all those you love.

Progressives are overreacting .Underreacting, though, to the - what the real threats are, and the real opportunities.

Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.

Give to these children, new from the world, Rest far from men. Is anything better, anything better? Tell us it then.