People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.

She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls’ hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.

You could say that all of life is a series of last chances.

I have the feeling that I know who I am, only I'm not anymore.

Rebellion is necessary for development of character.

You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?

She couldn’t get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn’t get away.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

Even the bad books I write are satisfying. I'm my least critical reader.

I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.

I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

Whether most Muslims are peaceable is irrelevant. The fact is that fanatics rule Islam now & act-out what the Qur'an truly says ...maul, march, & murder every Infidel if they won't convert!

Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.

I'm not beautiful; I clean up nice.

We have a terrific economy, it's like a great athlete that's had a cardiac arrest.

High school studfents are the largest oppressed minority in America.

If there is anything education does not lack today it is critics.

Frustration is out of expectation; expectation is our projection. All kinds of love frustrate unless love is based in meditation.

reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.

All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.

The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.