Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out how to make fake jawbone jewelry that would look like the real thing.

Time cures you first, and then it kills you.

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

The room looks as if a giant dog after a large lunch of food, socks, paints, trousers and pencils, walked into that room and vomited everywhere.

Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.

I almost never respect men. They're like flowers -- all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground.

We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires.

She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they're asked.

Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger?

The giant beech next door intends to shiver off every hair of its pelt.

It would be, like all of Pammy's parties, hot and crowded and filled with impossibly glamorous people with hip bones so sharp they could qualify as concealed weapons.

Once you begin to believe there is help "out there " you will know it to be true.

I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his mother out for dinner.

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General.

People make excuses [for not wanting to fight me]. It has a lot to do with my style. I'm a crafty fighter but I can also punch.

My hope is that if people have the knowledge, and if they actually see where their food comes from and have access to the information, they will make better ethical choices.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

Something I've never seen in all my lives. I'm staring at... hope." - Wanda