I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you.' Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help but take it personally.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.

If you aren't cute, you may as well be clever.

The rabbit of Easter. He bring of the chocolate.

I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.

My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name tags fashioned in the shape of maple leaves.

I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.

Scream at the mangled leather carcass lying at the foot of the stairs, and my parents would roar with laughter. "That's what you get for leaving your wallet on the kitchen table.

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.

I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.

To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

If people stop having secrets they stop having power.

People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything.

Data are just as often molded to fit preferred conclusions.

Where's the upside in opening your mouth?

I'm so super interested in what it is to stir things up and to listen to people.

Better to be a jerk that knees than a knee that jerks.