The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.

I look at my roommates who are so proud of me that it makes me proud.

That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you - without you asking.

A good mother is irreplaceable.

I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.

But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.

We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don't judge.

Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.

I even love the smell of books.

I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make up a nice story to feel better. I wish I was the kind who made up stories.

Love is possession, a sort of vanity.

My behavior last night was poor.""Poor?" Agatha coughed. "You pushed me through a window!

In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.

I teach people to be flexible, scientific and logical in their thinking and therefore to be less prone to brainwashing by the therapist.

Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every day for a month, and it becomes like a torture.

I think what I do is find a cliché and try to believe in it, try to get to where I don't laugh at it.

Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.

My mother and father stressed education and always made sure we had a place to study and books to read.

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.