I like to keep my dreams attainable. Eat cheese, sleep on a nice bed, have my work in the same museum as Rothko--the usual.

Standing on the edge of that darkness, she felt the stirrings of reckless want. A wild sort of bravery beat within her, taking up the hollow space in her chest where a heart should have resided.

Life is a weirdly themed party

We're all just moments and most of us don't matter. We study less than one percent of all humanity in our history books.

But were they truly victims? If they made a deal, knowing fully what they were trading for a wish--but then again, could a person ever truly know the consequences of giving away their heart?

Contrary to popular belief, going shopping is really about stopping afterward for cheesecake.

Kissing her again, softly, I leave my t-shirt next to her pillow.It's the silent promise that I'll come back again tonight.

The problem with couture is not designers; it's what happens when the couturier will no longer be there.

Images are the currency of our age, but it's a toss-up whether live in a time of abundance or debasement.

It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.

This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make up our biodiversity since the disappearance of the dinosaurs.

Yes, we could solve for why, but we could also eat another slice of coconut cake.

If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably follow.

Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.'

For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wanting to be taught.