(Her husband's departure ...) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.From "Butterfly on F street

We are all worthy of one another.

I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.

In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.

Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me.

A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.

Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease.

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got.

No matter what's happening, choose to be happy. Don't focus on what's wrong. Find something positive in your life. Thank God for the small things.

I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on.

Peace beings with me. The more peaceful I am inside, the more peace I have to share with others.

Motley Crue, collectively and individually, have done things on our own terms.

Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare. [Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]

It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to keep on the right track.

Comic-Con is always something that we- we love Comic-Con and we generally have a big presence there. So we usually have something to say there, and just as things come together.

God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.