Why couldn't she have given him a sultry laugh as she'd seen women do in movies instead of giggling like some enchanted, mindless school girl?

In four months we could actually have an administration that believes in science.

She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.

Lord, you're Irish, " said Will. "Can you make things that don't have potatoes in them? We had an Irish cook once when I was a boy. Potato pie, potato custard, potatoes with potato sauce...

We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.

In a country like Pakistan where is politics is often an art form of the elite, and it's often very dynastic, it's hard to explain to people why I don't think it's a birthright.

Youth has a right to go astray now and then Feeling themselves oppressed by the benevolence.

Happiness goes like the wind, but what is interesting stays.

Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues to be met by enormous inbuilt resistance.

The world is full of Buddhas but they're sleeping.

Once you know about these things, you will also love them, because you will see that without a sense of the sacred, you are less than a man.