And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.

There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.

I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.

The people who most affected me were the ones who got right in there with me, who cried with me, but who also had a certain authority, who dared to say what needed saying.

I got a mortgage at 17! I didn't even know you could get a mortgage at 17.

People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up.

Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.

Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.

In a free society we're supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, then we're in big trouble. And now, people who are revealing the truth are getting into trouble for it.

There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.