I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

A fathers only wish is for his children to be infinitely better off than him

Bragging that you finished in two strokes. Just like a man.”--Sloane Barrett, Killer Curves

Too weird to live, too rare to die!

I don't think we [with Kate DiCamillo] intended to write a book about friendship, I think we intended to write a book about two friends.

... why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of the species?

Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly.

When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

What's funny is that male strippers don't wear thongs anymore. They wear flat backs.

Since I became a dancer, I have felt much better about myself.

I believe everyone here has a right to speak out on politics as effectively as possible.