I think we love who we love and there’s not a damn thing that can be done about it.

I wanted to be strong when I went back to Persuasion. Strong and beautiful and totally together. I dreamed of the day I’d get to rub all your faces in my sheer awesomeness.

She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head.

She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets' Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head.

When Internet parlance finds its way into our accepted vocabulary, it becomes a cliché.

It was then I realized that no one can escape his age, and that my dangerous contempt had melted like ice the moment someone was kind enough to show they cared about me, and in a way that suited me.

Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).

When you're young, you're very insecure. And if I could learn, if I could revisit my own past I could say to myself, don't think too much, just get on and do it.

Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? 'Cause he had problems.

Whenever you play a song, you're basically playing with a lot of zeros and ones. These are Western compositional models that other cultures have explored in so many ways.

If we must have heroes and wars whereinto make them, there is no war so brilliant as a war with the wrong, no hero so fit to be sung, as he who has gained the bloodless VICTORY of truth and mercy.

The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.

Fate has a way of getting what she wants, no matter how we try to avoid it.

To celebrate the sacrament of reconciliation means to be wrapped in a warm embrace.