...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

Who overcomes By force hath overcome but half his foe.

I'm the most successful bad player ever.

Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.

To live one's love and hatred, to live that which one is means defeat, resignation, and death. The crimes of society, the hell that man has made or man become unconquerable cosmic forces.

Tolerance is just a fancy word for ignoring a fascist ideology. Acceptance is the only way.

I think the fact that we allow guns in our country is the main problem with school shootings.

You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.

I cant justify taking money away from hungry kids and needy schools to pay for the Games when corporations are willing to write the checks.

Can any church help us to win a war? If you can't help us win a war, then please don't press us.

You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side...The Bending forward and backward of the rowers...