When they're born outside, crows come and pluck their eyes out.

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.

The best way to appreciate God is to appreciate His creation

Kids on the Youtube, learning how to be cool.

The power of waiting is gracious.

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Girls' education is a human right. And along with its fundamental justice, it promises so much for the individual, for her family, for society, for all of us.

I loved the fact that I could get on stage and be in control.

There's another girl who was going to play Hilary Faye and luckily she wound up not doing it.

The downtrodden are more religious than the satisfied.

...visual truth lies in the structure of light.