I could pretend, at least, and if I pretended long enough, maybe I could make it into a reality.

The funny thing about stop signs is that they're also start signs.

I realize Jubilee is a bit of a stripper name. You probably think I have heard the call of the pole.

Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.

i miss you so much it's giving me a pain in my pancreas.

Fear can't hurt you," she said. "When it washes over you, give it no power. It's a snake with no venom. Remember that. That knowledge can save you.

It's always easier to say good-bye when you know it's just a prelude to hello.

You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.

I like you because you were mad. And you're pretty. And pretty sane for a mad person.

Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not.

I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.

Humility is of central importance I think it's an underappreciated virtue in the contemporary discussion of law and politics.

Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.

I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead.

I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.

The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.

I think that any reporter or columnist will be a little more careful when doing interviews with me.

Believe that problems do have answers, that they can be overcome, and that you can solve them.

You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they attach to the fact of being observed through the eyes of a satiric poet.

There are rough players and there are dirty players. I'm rough and dirty.

To me, everything is connected. We're a part of nature. We are organic beings. None of us were - all of us come out of a woman. That's the way we're growing.