He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

I went to the kitchen and felt-up the turkey.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

I love being pregnant. You can do whatever you want.

If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful.

Life is all too wondrous sweet, and the world is so beautifully bewildered; it is the dream of an intoxicated divinity.

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.

My pants cut the cheese. Let one fly. Baked a batch of brownies.

Many girls prepare their whole lives for this one moment. For me, I see Miss USA as an opportunity to reach new and greater heights in the future.

Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.

Ducks are sweet, crows are intelligent; but I prefer dolphins because they are both sweet and intelligent.