To impatient youth, all things took for ever and any kind of waiting was torture. Pg. 221

She could tell he was heading toward a bad place. She had seen him go there often enough, knew he had shortcuts he could take to get there in no time.

If the lies don't kill you, the truth will.

He continued to see inevitable events from the past as avoidable, long after they'd taken their course.

It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.

If you have a good community behind you and a good family supporting you, then, when the buck stops with you, there is the strength of that community and that family to draw upon.

The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.

I wanna do a movie! Anything that I connect with, really. I read scripts, I've taken some acting lessons, and I feel like that's definitely my next goal.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women's intelligence will contribute when it can be nourished without denying love?

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren't worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

Now get some clothes on before the women around here are driven into a frenzy." He gave me a mournful look. "I'm afraid that'll happen with or without clothes, my dear.

I am lucky. I am fortunate. I found the love of my life.

Would you like to watch TV or get between the sheets and contemplate this violent freeway, would you like something to eat would you like to learn to fly would ya, would you like to see me try

What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?

Who says that your thirties is when you're supposed to be done? I would like to know who made that rule!