This is what fun is like, " said Rain, almost to herself.

Of course. You get everything from books.

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.

There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.

I care as much as I can, but I don’t spend energy caring about things I cannot resolve.

But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off.

And that would be my method of locomotion, the Lion concluded. Not diplomas earned, but friendships bungled. Campaigns aborted. Errors in judgment and public humiliations.

Do good though, will you?" She blinked brightly at the green girl. "If not for your parents or your grandmother, then for me?

Don't wish, "said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...

It’s been a long, rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

The pain that you've been feeling, can't compare to the joy that's coming.

a small amount of kindness can make a large amount of difference

C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli. It is truly useful since it is beautiful.

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

You're going to end up with a government in Egypt that is concerned about the precious Palestinians, the same way we ought to be concerned about both precious Palestinians and precious Jews.

I am an actress, a producer, a philanthropist, a wife, and above all a mommy to my beautiful babies, Leonardo and Valentino.

What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?

If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.

I believe that the Right to Work issue is a perfectly appropriate one for Indiana to look at.

I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money.