Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

A finished person is a boring person.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.

It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.

Now when I have to remember a date, all I have to do is consult my rap sheet.

Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.

My soul is not a palace of the past.

I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.

I represent luxury, and that's what I love.

Nick is driving us," Jamie informed him. "Nick has a car. Nick has TWO cars. Ha!