Russians understand the rhythm of despair.

All that the Devil asks is acquiescence.

Evil is near. Sometimes late at night the air grows strongly clammy and cold around me. I feel it brushing me. All that the Devil asks is acquiescence not struggle, not conflict. Acquiescence.

When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.

When pain has been constant, it has its own momentum and laws. The vital thing is to break its ascendancy over the mind.

To be a friend takes time, and time is what nobody has. Therefore, real friends are rare.

The true friend . . . knows that you need him in that very moment –not tomorrow, not next week. By next week you may happy, or you may be dead.

When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts are frustrated it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.

I like seeing people when they can't see me.

Fine, but if and when the zombies team up with the mummies to take over the world, you can't live in my underground bunker.

Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth.

Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.

The reason I love my dog so much is because when I come home, he's the only one in the world who treats me like I'm the Beatles.

Don't be afraid to stand out. . .

Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval - is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase.

I want lots of kids and I want a garden and I hope to stay married to my husband. I hope to be working in some way that fulfills me.

One of the best ways to stop the failed policies coming out of Congress is to bring in the ideas and the involvement of the American people, which the America Speaking Out project is designed to do.

If they can play eight more years, then I can too. I'm in better shape than they are.