You can never know what it is that you have forgotten.

For children, parents are a yardstick for normalcy.

Why eye for an eye, when we can have smile for a smile ?

His eyes burned with intensity. I wondered briefly if someonehe knew was being held in that cold room that smelled like death. Someone he loved?

I've lost my faith in science.

You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'

When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read as the world crashes down around you.

If you understand liberals at all, you know that they'll never agree to market-based solutions for ideological reasons and because an expanding dependency class is their most essential power source.

Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain.

Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were also her chance for monumental revisionism.

Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.

To what will love not stoop!