Today the vacuum [of space] is not regarded as empty. It is a sea of dynamic energy, like the spray of foam near a turbulent waterfall.

The possibility of reduced-time interstellar travel either by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations at present or ourselves in the future, is not fundamentally constrained by physical principles.

In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

I accepted what the Sisters taught in religion class: that God is loving, merciful, charitable, forgiving. That message didn't jibe with adults smacking kids.

Frickin' hit me with the speeding car, now. Take away my intense craving to force myself against him and taste his lips.

You can't let a failure keep you down, because if you stay down after you fail, you are going to stay down for good.

I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I'm not happy doing.

For every way someone can be lost, we want to provide a practical way for them to be found in the very place they have ended up.

The only place where poverty should be is in museums.

The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place.

I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders.

Though I am not always responsible for what happens to me, I am responsible for how I handle what happens to me.