I sighed; as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.

I know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast?

I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.

I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book

But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.

And I was having too much fun to stop now.

you can’t use logic on human behavior.

Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.

I am not a genuine woman, but I am not interested in genuineness.

Queen of arts and daughter of heaven.

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

I mean, you've got to protect human health beyond everything, and so we think eliminating shared-use antibiotics is the right way to go.

Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

[The Democrats'] vision for the future: socialized medicine and Washington-run health care.

The past gives great examples of what can happen in the future. It's always important to remember.

Divorce is hard and painful and complicated, and something you have to grow through.

People told me I'd have to deal more with losing at this level. I understood that, but I didn't want to start accepting losses.