Knowing and doing are two separate things, and don't always sync up in life.

We spend much of our lives going about completely blind to reality, and yet we still have the gall to act victimized when it invariably catches up to us.

Girls can fight with swords, too. Sometimes, even better than men can. They just have to want it badly enough that they're willing to work harder at it.

I was supposed to be powerless, and as a result they failed to see that I possessed claws.

You think you're superior to the others, don't you? We'll you're not. In fact you're worse for mistaking basic human decency for moral superiority.

That's what I fear: being subtracted from myself. Negation. Forced against my will to become a beast.

Hatred is as easy as slipping on a well-worn woolen cloak. If only it provided the comfort of one.

You would do well to guard your tongue, lest it be stricken from you.

One doesn't need to be taught fear when one is the hunted.

You may have bought my body, you may even have the papers to prove it, but don't fool yourself into thinking for a moment that my heart and mind were included in the purchase.

Life is meant to be a journey of continuous progress

If you can't convince you're normal, convince they're weird too.

If someone wants to be in your life they will find you. If they don't they will find an excuse.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

Never inject a man into the top, if it can be avoided. In a big organization, to have to do that, I think, is a reflection on management, Of course there are always exceptional cases.

Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

That is your legend?" Akiva asked, incredulous. Madrigal had told him the story of the sun and Ellai while they flew. "That seraphim are the blood of a rapist sun?

I wear all my T-shirts from Helmut Lang with the holes in the elbows, which people always speak of. When my husband gets a hole in his sweater, at his elbow, he says, "It's very Helmut Lang!"

We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.

I always thought I would adopt. Even when I was young, I used to look up how to adopt.