Have you got something against faith?”“Have you got something against reason?

What is this thing? Did you make it?”“I am a chemist, aren’t I?” Laurence says.“You own a meth-lab, ” Benjamin says. “That does not qualify you as a chemist.

Less is less. Heartbreak is heartbreak. You think I'm sitting here gloating. Telling myself that my suffering beats yours? Hurt is hurt. You don't measure these things.

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast.

There's a lot of exhibitionists who want to tell their stories anonymously and there's a whole lot of voyeurs who want to feel like a fly on the wall and hear about people's lives.

I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

I learned by standing in the wings and watching established acts on stage.

I spend my own money, not other people's money.

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.