Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.

Love hides in all sorts of places, in the most sorrowful corner of your heart, in the darkest and most hopeless situation

We will do the good work. It is our holy duty.

My understanding of Chinese history is limited. So far, I have only scratched its surface; I wish I could find out more.

YOU YOU YOU your eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curling at the edges a book of myths in which i do not appear.

We as women look around for things that we need to pay attention too just in case.

The US dollar is our currency but your problem.

People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.

It's always a great day going to work with Ginnifer Goodwin; she's a fantastic actress and I learn so much from her.

One of my mottos not only just in skating but in life in general and I try to enforce it as well, is like no regrets and just like going for it.

And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn't yet understood the first thing about it.