If life really depends on each gene being as unique as it appears to be, then it is too unique to come into being by chance mutations.

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

The boys he met at Annandale only understood one kind of woman. They needed to be coddled and cooed over as their own mothers had done their whole lives.

To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.

A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights.

[10 Things I Hate About You] is a smart and grounded film about a real, well-rounded girl. I think the only other teen film that came close to getting that right was Can't Hardly Wait.

I'm not a fashionista - I adore creative and original people with their own style.

The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.

Sensuality takes planning and work.

As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.