So now, when I look back, all I see is who we used to be and who we are now. And I wonder how anybody can recognize anyone at all.

I think about how maybe it's not things that change but people that change, and maybe that's the change everyone is really talking about.

It was like adults had their own little world that we weren't allowed to be a part of, and it didn't make sense because we were part of the world, too.

Be informed here and now that incessant prayers does  not finger God to open the Windows of heaven. What God wants to see Is your passion towards success and your giving drive...nothing else!

Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?" "I do, " Dunbar told him. "Why?" Clevinger asked. "What else is there?

Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don't know anyone on Earth who doesn't, but I do find it funny.

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.

Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.

Keeping your private life as private as possible is the smartest thing.

There's a hazy smile on her lips that won't go away, and her hair is a mess. It's like a brushfire filled with casualties.

A cat that jumps on a hot stove will never jump on a hot stove again. Neither will it jump on a cold stove.

Failure to die is always appreciated.

Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.