the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.

I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.

The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.

That's the beauty of art--we strive for perfection but never achieve it. The journey is everything.

Having money isn't everything, not having it is.

If it aint broke, break it. Then build something better.

It is not enough to hope for something to happen and throw it into the universe. You, too, must also work to make it happen.

So, how does he kiss?"I'm blushing. I tap my fingers on my lips before I say, "He kisses like ... like it could be his job.

I read an hour almost every night. It's part of falling asleep.

Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea.

I can usually get the right connection with the crowd and I don't have to be jumping off ladders.

Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?

Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines.