Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

What would happen if you gave yourself permission to do somethingyou’ve never done before? There’s only one way to find out.

attraction, that's the farthest thing from an idea. That's an urge, an impulse, a force. It's subconscious, physical. You can't make everything cerebral.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

I missed you, Angel. Not one day went by that I didn't feel you missing from my life.

We are creatures on this planet that have the capacity of self-awareness, playing out our role just the same as all else.

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love

I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a roomful of obnoxious people.

Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats-let you know if you're off course. But it ain't always possible.

Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.