Because there's no way on earth she's going to make it through college unless she grows some serious ovaries and turns this train wreck around

Once you read something, you can't erase it from your brain.

Carrie doesn't seem to talk about anything with sharp edges. Maybe she's afraid they might poke her and then she'd burst.

Get me outa here. F*ckin' creepy cheerleaders.

A piece of information can change a person. I'd hate to change the way I'm supposed to live the future.

I suppose the test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found that one can never please the people they wanted to please.

He made her think of ruins, of mysterious places in shadow and darkness, of storms and torrents of rain.

I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.

Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.

I grew up in the suburbs. I'm an angry suburban nergo. I'm bad in, like, Starbucks. I'll hurt you over a frappuccino.

Churches are not the kingdom of God, but are primary and inevitable expressions, outposts, and instrumentalities of presence of the kingdom among us. They are 'societies' of Jesus.

If you are around a lot of human beings who are filled with jealousy and anger and rage and desire, it filters into the mind. Zen is writing a new program to run in the mind.

In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.