It amazed me how quickly a lie loses its power in the face of truth.

I understand that sometimes the only way we can survive our own memories is to shape them into a story that makes sense out of events that seem inexplicable.

When you have so little, just the smallest thing can make you happy

They said 'ski', but they heard 'vodka'!

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

That most risky and volatile of all things a self-pitying majority.

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.

The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.

My mother dressed me always very conservatively.

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.

The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.