I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

You can either wonder or worry

Both David Koresh and Timothy McVeigh fell in the fight for freedom, the right of the Americans to be left alone.

What's true about you is what God says about you. Not what your mirror says. Not what your past says.

It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.

Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.

The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time.

You never know how much you can grow.

I'm interested in people's darker side, the ones that aren't easy and well balanced. The cracks.

All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.