No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

Great achievements are nothing more than a collection of small accomplishments.

Oh, Gerty, I wasn't meant to be good.

It's impossible to talk without labels. "Dog" is a label, but that doesn't mean it's meaningless, nor does it mean there's no difference in a Shih Tzu and a Doberman.

Tomorrow composts today.

To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.

I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?

When we graduated from college and law school, we had a mountain of debt.

Of all the butterflies that chose to stay, I’m in love with the one that got away.

It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.

I wouldn't abandon nobody. I would be lying if I said I was just talking to everybody.