Oooh...Aunt Chelsea called Jake the D-word!"Rory's voice carries into the kitchen. "Dipshit?""No.""Dumbass?""No.""Douchebag?""What's a douchebag?""Rory!" Chelsea and I yell at exactly the same time.

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.

How could it ever be to our purpose to rob another living being of his or her purpose?

She was strength and power and so many things he’d pretended for twelve years he didn’t miss, didn’t need.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes.

If a film has a social message, it is very important for me to know what the message is and how it's going to be delivered, but it's not something I look for all the time.

Industrial culture? There has been a phenomena; I don't know whether it's strong enough to be a culture. I do think what we did has had a reverberation right around the world and back.

I have an intensive hatred for discrimination based on colour.

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

You can tell the size of a person by the way he treats people who cannot help him.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.