...I dabble in causes and effects.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

To some people independent though is heresy and critical thought blasphemy

Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too.

Suicide is the only way out.

In any society, the way a woman gives birth and the kind of care given to her and the baby points as sharply as an arrowhead to the key values of the culture.

Everybody needs a killer LBD. If you're a woman, you should find that LBD that gives you that extra pep and confidence.