Paper remains the standard to which digital media can only aspire.

I felt the breath of God go cold on my skin.

Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but with other readers.

I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating.” --Alison Bechdel

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

There's always someone we'd love to kill, the trick is to make it not look like an accident

Pain is part of being alive and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever nor is it necessarily unbearable and we need to be taught that.

Hector Torrez, how can you communicate with Enzo Hernandez when he speaks Spanish and you speak Mexican?

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

I am, uh ... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel that people who aren't anorexic are punished ... for not being anorexic.

When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!

He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.

I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

I think it would be slightly perverse to continue tempting fate by going back to the same places and doing the same sort of thing.