Hard work's a good distraction.

The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly

Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.

I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty." -Tally Youngblood

Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.

I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood

However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay.

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

I have always understood that money made in the patent medicine business is a practical bar to social success.

In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.

You must have a clear mental picture of the correct thing before you can do it successfully.

Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.

This (America) is a land of rich diversity, from the towering skyscrapers of Manhatan all the way to the towering mounds of garbage piled up next to the towering skyscrapers of Manhattan.

I think it is really important to put out what you want so the world knows what to give you.

I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

If I didn't play international cricket, I would have joined the Army.