We can't profess love without talking through hand puppets.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

Be forever young in the flesh, it makes the mind flash light low, until the spotlight follows your shadow.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

I'm about 90 percent vegan. I think veganism is really well suited for training, at least for me anyway.

Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

I especially want to change the way we as Latinas see our beauty. I feel that there is a misinterpretation of what we're supposed to look like.

The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.

To test if you are worrying too much about looking good, observe how you feel when you find out you've made a mistake or don't know something.

I'm a warrior for light.

Oh, on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes front clay, Be Thou, O Christ, the sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away.