... it is strange to know you would be cast off by the people who greet you so warmly, if they knew the whole truth about you.

It is a mother's duty to teach her daughters about the uses of blood, particularly a magical daughter.

What are acquaintance for, if not to supply the pleasures of gossip?

Are you going? What shall you wear?""I shall go in what I am standing in, " said Mak Genggang. "A witch is always appropriate whatever her attire.

What exclusively determines the magnitude of the value of any article is therefore the amount of labour socially necessary, or the labour-time socially necessary for its production.

We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.

In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to be.

The jobless recovery in Maine is much more of a reality than we thought it was.

[Sigmund ] Freud assumes that every dream represents the satisfaction of adesire and in the last analysis, of a sexual desire that has its roots in infancy.

If you think about how long it takes to write a piece of music for an orchestra, it's outrageous to me, outrageous.

The hallmark of excellence, the test of greatness, is consistency.

My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.

I never really went to any concerts that I wasn't in.

I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.