True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

In searching for myself, I have created myself.

Fathers left distinctive footprints

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Jenni Fagan is the real thing, and The Panopticon is a real treat: maturely alive to the pains of maturing, and cleverly amused as well as appalled by what it finds in the world.

Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.

And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.

I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist.

everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home.

I gave up myself, but myself did not give up me; and so, I am still myself!

Luckily I have a brother who looks after my administration and my money, because I'm a total spendthrift.