Fashions in sin change.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

People change and forget to tell each other.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

We must endure the present circumstances for a far greater future.

I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.

It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.

Beware of geeks, you know, bearing formulas.

Emotions are the fuel and the mind is the pilot which together propel the ship of civilized progress.

I'm not a girl. I'm a genius.

My music - that's the one area I won't let myself be pushed around. But in other parts of my life, I'm a confused mess.

Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to.

My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.

As for love . . . no, having once written that word I can write nothing more.