the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Defiance through compliance.

Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.

The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

Doing what I like to do, the way I like to do it ... makes me happy.

Security wins many battles but loses the security war. We are definitely going backwards in computer security.

If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.

The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave.

Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.

That which is not daring is nothing.

Immortality... Is that a super power?

I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.

When people screw up, give them a second chance.

Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival.