Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation.

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.

...children are at heart selfish, and reasonably so, for they are programmed for survival.

Mother, what is a Feminist?""A feminist, my daughter, Is any woman now who caresTo think about her own affairsAs men don't think she oughter.

There is no cure for madness except the madness as the cure.

The joys of meeting pay the pangs of absence else who could bear it?

People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.

You hope that the ideas will come together. You just don't know. That's part of what I suppose is part of being brave and putting creative work out there.

To do someone else's script? I don't think I'd have a reason.

No reliance can be placed on the friendship of kings, nor vain hope put in the melodious voice of boys; for that passes away like a vision, and this vanishes like a dream.

My sister gave me a big bucket of Cool Whip. Isn't that awesome? For two weeks I basically watched Emergency! and ate cool whip with a spoon.

You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.