We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

Stay focus on what God has assigned me to do. Keep my mind on what I am doing/

No matter how small you start, always dream and think BIG. If you start with small thoughts then you will stay with small thoughts.

what are you thinking, Amy? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we ddone to each other? What will we do?

How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the happiness of her loving him, now felt unhappy because she loved him too much!

I found that old Solomon proved it fair, That a big-belly'd bottle's a cure for all care.

Find someone who you really believe in - that can be at a state level. The one thing I can encourage women to do the most is to start at the state level.

I thoroughly enjoy the work I do in helping motivate and empower young girls to celebrate and love their natural selves.

I have days of self-doubt, but I think the kindest thing I can do to myself is accept where my body is at.

Be your own guide, follow your own movement.

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.