You can't get away from yourself, or can you? So why are you trying to...

I choose not to fight against but to stand for. Not to go against but to go for.

Every fit has a misfit. Finding your fit is the path rather than fighting to fit.

We are born crying, and for good reason, ' he reflected. 'And the rest of our lives is bound to be a muted reiteration of that cry.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.

A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.

No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]

During my first photo shoot, I was unhappy because they put so much makeup on me and straightened my hair. I've been stubborn ever since.

When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

If two people love the same thing, she reasoned, then they must love each other, at least a little, even if they never say it.

I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up