Tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.

I think we ought to live happily ever after.

My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.

But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right.

Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!

You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want.

What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?

Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.

I feel ill, " [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die.

Wizard Howl, " said Wizard Suliman. "I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldn't dream of setting teeth in a fellow countryman.

Some people are thoroughly self-centred. This thing goes with me. I need it for moral support.

Mysticism and supernaturalism are the descendants of ignorance and fear.

Hope is a fruit of proven character.

Let me make the newspapers and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth.

My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.

The only people who never fail are those who never try

Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.

Never apologize. Never explain.

I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.