Gender and the complications it gives rise to simply aren't relevant to the lives appliances lead.

It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go away with hurt feelings. You can't always expect people, or squirrels, to be rational.

Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for the most impassioned love.

In any case, muffins that are only imaginary aren't liable to get stuck.

The toaster (lacking real bread) would pretend to make two crispy slices of toast. Or, if the day seemed special in some way, it would toast an imaginary English muffin.

I don't want to be a tree

God, he was so beautiful. It was the tragic kind of beauty too, the kind you knew was doomed from the start. A face that launched a thousand ships and dug a million graves.

Change itself is not a choice, but you can choose to be willing to change and you can choose to will the changes that you want. Willing Change

Little red cookbook! Little red cookbook!

We have to learn how to control our minds. We have to learn self-control.

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

I've often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don't know enough about the real world to write one.

We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.

I don't know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- 'social justice.' For that is what I have believed in and fought for.

We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race.