My membership has given me everything I've ever wanted.

[W]hat should I have done? Gather dirt in my purse?

...I've been told that this building is here waiting for me. It's been my Buckingham Palace, my White House, my Taj Mahal, so coming here today as a real member is - well, it's a big deal.

...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.

I've always liked Anna, but according to my mother, her family is complete New Money, and my grandmother has pointed out on several occasions that they're not even really Southern.

There is life and there is death, but on the border, where one shades into the other, there is the In Between. "...[M]ost people go through life without even knowing that it's there.

I'm named after my great grand-mother...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.

You won't be able to find it out for yourself in any library or archive, either, because my grandmother has carefully and systematically destroyed every shred of evidence.

If not for her truly sparkling personality, she would have been doomed.

[W]hat my grandmother and my mother and I all know is that our beauty is no miracle. It is bought and paid for.

[M]y grandmother...had always complained that our house didn't have a profile that was "significant enough.

Of the many forms that silence takes, the most memorable is the dry husk of the cicada.

and fear was the strongest force on earth.

Where we see the same faults followed regularly by the same misfortunes, we may reasonably think that if we could have known the first we might have avoided the others.

Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.

Boston has two seasons: August and winter.

I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence.

Sound economic fundamentals coupled with a number of positive factors have partially offset the psychological impact of rising interest rates in Hong Kong.

Northern Ireland is the world’s best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.

It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.