It doesn't matter if you never see someone again, I told myself. There are millions of people in the world, and most of them never see each other in the first place.

There is no point in delaying crying. Sadness is like having a vicious alligator around. You can ignore it for only so long before it begins devouring things and you have to pay attention.

Moxie gave me a small smile. "Why do you always say that- which here means?""I'll probably outgrow it, " I said.

Life is magnificent and vivacious, but it is also fugacious.

Allah exalts whom he wills!

The holocaust is the solution to the Jews final question

The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no less natural and necessary than liberty but more dangerous.

My parents and I were all afraid of being poor - really poor.

It was moving, but so absurd that I nearly laughed out loud. I imagined a new line of Hallmark cards: "Thank you for not killing my boyfriend, even if it risks killing you.

But I'm not afraid of the skeletons in Julie's closet. I look forward to meeting the rest of them, looking them hard in the eye, giving them firm, bone-crunching handshakes.

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

People ask me if I could fly, I said, 'yeah....' for a little while.

I hate wearing anything tight. A corset is my idea of torture.