She folds the pages of the books she reads when she wants to remember something important. Her favorite books are accordions, testaments to an endless search for meaning.

You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.

Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

Every moment I have ever experienced as a child is as important as every moment I am experiencing now, or will experience ever. I guess what I'm saying is that not everybody should have children.

I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.

As every so-called creative spirit soon learns, the rest of the world doesn't particularly give a damn.

I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity.

I am a kind of joke, but the question is: which kind? My job is to keep everyone guessing.

After all, this is America, and you can swap out the parts of yourself that don't work. You can rebuild yourself piece by piece.

Maybe this is who I really am.Not a loner, exactly.But someone who can be alone.

If you were able to fall a hundred times as a child and rise, you are able to fall a thousand times as a grown up and soar.

Tell me what you'll do if you're captured by the coyotes... Well, that might work, but does your mother live near here?

And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.

It isn't the instrument that influences High-Minded or Low-Minded; it's the quality of Mind itself.

You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and create wealth and prosperity in a very competitive world.

I don't mean to complain. I wouldn't trade my life for anything.

But I'm very happy with my life the way it has been turning out. A little time in the country, a little time with the animals and working on behalf of them.

Dizzy, Duke and Charlie Parker were the greatest jazz legends of all time.

Take "no" as an encouragement to redouble his efforts, so it was easier to say "yes" right away.

The modern tribalism of the left demands that each person choose a group and then agree with everything that group agrees with. And anybody who leaves that group is stoned to death.