Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.

Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.

What we've done, it seems to me, is allow women to get older, but not to age.

Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.

One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.

Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.

For the longest time in Denmark I didn't want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.

Real life is in love, laughter, and work.

Nothing is so fickle and uncertain as popularity. It is here today and gone tomorrow. It is a sandy foundation, and sure to fail those who build upon it.

Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it.

For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools.

I haven't had any problems with my back since I got the foot surgery.

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

My father believed, like Pericles, that a mans genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.

I'm a little prejudiced when it comes to horses. I have always loved them.