Sometimes a short cut is just a short cut to disaster.

You will do as you are told the second you are told to do it. Is that clear?''I'm not six mother, I think I can grasp standard sentences.' Whether I chose to pay attention to them however...

On cable TV they have a weather channel - twenty-four hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window.

I have a lot of faith in justice systems around the world even though there were cases in the past where that faith wasn't justified in some countries.

I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell.

You say what you have to say. But you have to learn to say it in such a way that the reader can see what you mean.

Art is like turning corners, one never knows what is around the corner until one has made the turn.

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.

People talk to me a lot about, "Why don't you ever rebel?" And I feel like I do rebel. To me, rebelling is - is that rush you get when you sing a song about someone and you know they're in the crowd.