I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

Be strong and courageous. Fear not! God will grant you the strength to overcome any adversity.

We're living in hard times.

There are three things that are not to be credited: a woman when she weeps, a merchant when he swears, nor a drunkard when he prays.

There was a part of her she hadn’t yet allowed to be born because it was too beautiful for this place

Be proud of your choices, not your gifts.

I would rather be loved by somebody who respected me.

As the company scales, everybody is not going to get invited to every single meeting, but they're gonna want to go to every meeting.

I considered calling Grace to ask her what I should say to a reticent suicidal werewolf, but I'd left my phone somewhere. Car, maybe.

Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.

I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a << racial epithet >>.