Flora went to the cinema every day that week. She saw the same movie each day, and wore the same dress.

Baptism in the Holy Spirit belongs to them that believe and are not of this world

But the good thing about life is that we can fix our mistakes sometimes. We learn from them. We get better.

The reputation of a great work ethic that took years to build can be forgotten with one act of misjudgment.

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

I'm sitting here watching Hannah Montana, so I'm not going to annihilate 4.3 million Pakistanis without hearing directly from someone whose authority I recognize!

I get that some people just want to do work and keep their lives private. I think for me, it just felt like I needed to be open about who I am. It just felt like the right thing for me to do.

When I say “when you’re always almost lonely, you forget to take it slowly,” I mean that you don’t always take care of yourself.

I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.

Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy.