There was nothing in life harder or more important than agreeing every morning to stay the course, to go back to your forgotten self of so many years ago, and to make the same decision.

So much for being a good friend was knowing when to keep your mouth shut.

Maybe that was the answer to good parenting—pretending the first child was the second.

Some people smoked crack in alleyways. Franny ate chocolate. On the scale of things, it seemed entirely reasonable.

She had the wild look of someone who hadn’t slept in twenty-four hours, with purplish semicircles underneath both her eyes. Being eighteen was like being made out of rubber and cocaine.

God doesn’t call us to comfort

Honesty doesn't mean you reveal everything you discern and feel. That is why we have the word discretion...

It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be a weapon...

When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.

I thoroughly enjoy the work I do in helping motivate and empower young girls to celebrate and love their natural selves.

Kids are always honest, 'cause they don't think they're ever going to die.

If you talking 'bout classics, do my name get brought up?

I think there is a lot of fat in the government.

I know the power of the Israeli lobby and the other lobbies, but we need a foreign policy that puts our own country first.

So you know cats are interesting. They are kind of like girls. If they come and talk to you it's great. But if you try to talk to them it doesn't always go so well.