My heart is happy my mind is free. I had a father who talked with me.

There's no place for someone who can't decide between being one or the other.

The professor stared straight ahead. He felt Husam's eyes upon him. He clenched his hands together tightly, lest their shaking reveal everything.

If there was one thing she'd learned from her parents, it's that pleasure was sacred.

You know, surprisingly, they don't sell a lot of brains in the local 24-hour grocery store around the corner from my house.

Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.

Only stupid people don't change their minds.

I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.

Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [Lat., Quod medicorum est Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Who would want the socialist Utopia? Especially if you were at all artistic - you want all those inequalities, because that's what makes life interesting.