The 1st day, I stood in the kitchen leaning against the counter watching Annie feed the cats, and I knew I wanted to do that forever.

Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?

And that's like my world." Annie pointed up to the stars again."Inaccecible.

And that's like my world." Annie pointed up to the stars again. "Inaccessible." "Not, " I said to her softly, "to unicorns. Nothing's inaccessible to unicorns. Not even--not even white birds.

And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?

In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain of giving.

It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells.

Hook your audience with a tiny snag of truth, and the Holy Spirit will unravel the rest.

Nature made the fields and man the cities.

Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.

I'm going to keep drinking on stage. I have a pretty healthy relationship with alcohol. I know how far to go and when to stop.

Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

It's unacceptable that consumers are punished on their telephone bill simply for crossing a border.