Can I have my ear back?" He asked irritably.She blinked."Mother, can you tell this creature here to loosen her hold?

Our once simple, unified meaning of life is being shattered into many, sometimes competing, concepts.

Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.

My last kids were born when I was in my forties, so I still had little kids around me, which gave me the illusion of feeling younger.

I don't hate Muslims, I hate Islam.

Whatever you love is beautiful; love comes first, beauty follows. The greater your capacity for love, the more beauty you find in the world.

We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?

I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.

I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.

Never talking to strangers. Saying nasty things about the neighbors.

Someone like Russell Crowe is questioned for his passion for music, and whatever he does, music is just in his heart and soul. All he wants to do is music.