There’s no question that Laura – in more than one way, for many reasons – danced with the devil and paid a terrible price.

Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.

Words lose their meaning when you look at them too long. ‘God.’ ‘Science.’ Meaning.

In my experience, what defines a crime depends on who’s getting screwed.

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it.

We paw at nostalgia even before we hit twenty, wanting a holiday that never happened, a wholesomeness that could not survive in the wild.

The price of Justice is eternal publicity.

But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his.

As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life but they are private people. I won't use them for my own press.

I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.

Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.

What goes down usually goes back up, if you're willing to be patient and don't hit the panic button.