I think for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.

I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.

But in college, we can wear our alcohol abuse as proudly as our university sweatshirts; the two concepts are virtually synonymous.

I’ve been thinking I’d like to be Daisy; I’d like to have someone like Gatsby stare at my house for whole years and never stop dreaming of me

Like most women, I remember my first drink in tender minutiae.

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.

I have been a ballerina, a cheerleader and a sorority girl. I was the girliest girl alive.

Me? I'm just a literary girl gone wrong. Slow with the tongue. Quick with the pen. Undeniably cute. But, on the whole, ill-equipped for the privilege of living.

I can’t help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for action; climb back up for self-awareness and gratitude.

For the first month of school, writing is its own upper. Pounding on my computer keys feels like playing the piano, like arranging words into harmony that sings back to me.

I'm trying to figure out precisely which character flaw might be responsible for my latest life failure.

What's it like? Being married?Cold feet. Middle of the night you're sleeping, suddenly, wham, you've got ice cold feet warming themselves on the back of your legs.

You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!

We are to live for the dominion of God’s kingdom

As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music, all pianists played it.

I am not quite myself, I think.But who here is quite himself? And yet there is a way in which we are all more ourselves than ever, I suppose.

If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy.

I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?

It is far more important the law should be administered with absolute integrity, than that in this case or in that the law should be a good law or a bad one.

Fate does not seek our consent.

Men judge by the complexion of the sky The state and inclination of the day.