Sometimes my entire life has felt like one long exercise in lowering my expectations.

There is no such thing as magic, " she told me. "You can b e l i e v e all you want, but it's never going to do you any good. Nobody flies. We only fall

I don't know what she's thinking, but I'm thinking how fluid the border is between crazy and interesting, and how hard it is to decide who belongs where.

What are challenges to a mind that strongly believes in its limitless potential?

Behavioral science is not for sissies.

Well, you can fairly claim the day hasn't been wasted, ' owned Cadfael generously, 'if something's been learned.

I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.

Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.

The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.

No woman should be told she can't make her own decisions about her body. If women's reproductive rights come under attack, I will be standing up for women.

New York is beautiful, but [the South] makes it look like a wasteland.

The best form to see God in... is in every form

I love the edited version of it.