I would much rather people kick and scream and tear their hair out and accuse me of all kinds of blasphemy, than just have no opinion whatsoever.

Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

You don't even realize you're living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after.

Evil must always be fought.

I don't care if I get kicked out of every rich kid club on the planet. I will never sacrifice my integrity as a DJ...ever.

People don't want other people to be people.

For what it’s worth: trust your feelings. I can’t promise that you’ll never get hurt again, but I can promise you the risk is worth it.

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

In democracy, our most important tool is to vote. But our power tool is when we have the power to influence others on who to vote for.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

...our familiar features rinsed in weird adulthood.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching, if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.

Every morning as I read the scripture, every night, I quote the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule.

I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade.

I remember being mad about having pink and red shoes. I gew up envying other girls' pink and red shoes.

Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.