It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it—gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead.

Such is the lot of the narcissist's child, to inherit her parent's umbrage over the world's indifference.

Leadership can mean defiance.

Being classy is my teenage rebellion.

A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.

The idea that marriage has to be for all time - that I don't understand.

I don't use scientific data as a foundation for believing in God - I use it as an enrichment of my knowledge of God.

In many, many ways... Hufflepuff is my favorite house.

This is what we bear, I thought, the nearness of other lives.

I am going to be a great actress.