Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.

I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.

To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.

I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.

But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

Do not surrender to the one that rules this world, you have the greater One in you

Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.

Someone who doesn't take herself too seriously and can be a goofball. Because everyone's a nerd inside, I don't care how cool you are.

Lance Armstrong admitted he used performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career. He confessed in front of the most respected judge in the land, Oprah Winfrey.

All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.

God made us to consume food. He did not make food to consume us.

I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.

When I first saw Jo, I said boom, that was it, because I'm a one-woman man.

If there is such a person on the planet, then he or she-this self-appointed arbiter of “appropriateness”-deserves to be confronted with as many “inappropriate” transgressions as possible.

Just because you’re on their side doesn’t mean they’re on your side.