Life was like that when you were fifteen and knobby-kneed and you only had a handful of choices. Your world was small and cruel and narrow-minded and breathtaking.

The strong were always eating the weak.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Height gives you the initiative.

It's cold water in the face to realize you're not nearly as special and as unusual as you might have thought when you were an alienated teenager.

I love to wear red lipstick a lot, even in the daytime.

I never wanted to feel I hadn't worked hard enough.

Silence is often advantageous.

How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?

Finding something important in life does not mean that you must give up everything else.

Books were put out, and 'had a run,' / Like coinage from the mint; / But which could fill the place of one, / That one they wouldn't print?