One way to remain unfinished is to stop. the other is to go on.

It's like swimming, underwater, this whole year. I just close my eyes. hold my breath, and keep kicking.

You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally, and then it was just too late to get them back

Worrying was painful .... but compared to the alternative, a privilege

I am supposed to be where I go.

This life is mine because of good luck. And because I reached out and took it.

I always found Louise Brooks interesting. She was an icon of the silent - film era, and I knew she'd grown up in Kansas, and that she was smart and rebellious and sharp - tongued.

This is how it is now. This is my life.

Someone needs to give the Pope thirteen babies. Just for a week or so. See how he likes no birth control then.

I wasn't that familiar with silent films. I didn't know, for example, how hugely popular silent films were in the 1920s, how people would go to the movies several times a week.

Yes, Louise Brooks was beautiful and intelligent, and she could be very funny, but obviously there was a deep insecurity there, a real destructive rage and immaturity.

In spite of all the sparring that went on between us, I sort of liked Morelli. Good judgment told me to stand clear of him, but then I've never been a slave to good judgment.

If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is.

A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.

Here I am in the state of New Mexico. George Bush is still in the state of denial. New Mexico has five electoral votes. The state of denial has none. I like my chances.

The boys are so well-rounded, they're so self-disciplined, there is so much camaraderie

Is my name V? No... Then why would I follow U?

By laughing, it helps take our power back.

I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.

If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.