I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

The concept of randomness and coincidence will be obsolete when people can finally define a formulation of patterned interaction between all things within the universe.

If your opponent is of choleric temper,   seek to irritate him.  Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.

Those who fixate on what could have been are bound to miss what already is.

The mind is an innovation engine of any human progress, but also the root cause of almost all human problems.

I let the American people down.

It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.

I don't care about a social life.

I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.

It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.

There is always a place in the world for those who are willing to give of their time, energy, capital, creativity, and commitment.