I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.

One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.

We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them.

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.

Maybe that's good to not feel like you have to keep up when there's so much to keep up with right now. It's bottomless.

There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to work on that I didn't. I like too much having things in my head rather than doing the work.

To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.

You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!

Its better to Convince by words rather than your Hands. We should not degrade our Standard for others. - Merlin Thomas

The power of writing is phenomenal.

Wealth creeps under your epidermis like poison. It invades your posture, your gestures, the way you carry yourself.

Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.

The world is Trouble...and Grace. That is all there is.

A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.

The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men.

If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.

SLVR, as a 'sexier' looking device, will do better for Motorola than the ROKR.

Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself.