What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.

You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant.

You know that you’re truly successful when you can afford to fail.

Remember that good poets too can write bad poems! Talent has also a talent to be untalented!

What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communicationOf the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up.

Is forever longer than always?

People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store.

If you think you’re attractive, you’re always attractive.

Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.

I believe that we can access stories, and voices from those around us, more easily often than from our own imperfect memories.

We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief.