Have I been blind, have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind?

Im going to be shaking my booty when Im 55.

I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!

For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration.

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

I've raised my daughter with no television.

TV holds a close second to cars for destroying our society. It's a failed experiment.

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

Life is sweet, life is also very short.

The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.

Have I been wrong? Have I been wise to shut my eyes?

Stil it takes you strange walking in your old foot steps like that. Putting your groan up foot where your chyld foot run nor dint know nothing what wer coming.

What will life be like without her? I am dreadfully sad she is leaving. What if she just disappears

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

I'm not a beautiful person and I never have been.

For Karen Holmes (in From Here to Eternity), I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy if I had to.

I may have one more 'Star Trek' novel in me, but it would be in the old universe, not the new one.

if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.

Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead.

The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.

Please stop looking at me, she thought, afraid of his eyes and terrified of her own heart.