We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.

The way to art was not to think too clearly, not to plan things out, but to follow where your heart and emotions led.

Corruption hates what is not corrupt.

This Christmas, every Christmas, Santa Claus is everywhere and Jesus is nowhere to be found.

Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose.

And you’re disappointed in the story. I know you wanted a love story.

There’s nothing cruel about a vampire or a parasite, she said.

That’s why it’s difficult to write about your own life. Any distortion feels like a betrayal.

You just seem so sad, ” I said, dialing voice mail. “Like someone stole your favorite nine millimeter.”“I’m not sad.” He started down the hall, then turned back. “Least not when I look at you.”.

I felt angry, frustrated.I felt I didn't belong, not in my, church, not in my home, not in my skin.

There is too much repression and suppression in schools.

[The public has] the habit now of invalidating opinions emanating from me by reference to my age and infirmities.

Finance went from being a small business, effectively, to being a big business. In part, that's the growth of the world's wealth. That's called savings.

They've been stealing mortals away for centuries, but they can't have you.

Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought.

Let not one look of Fortune cast you down; she were not Fortune if she did not frown.

Liberty comes only after security.

Steak on the plate went up. Steak on the hoof went down.