Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.

The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly

Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.

I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty." -Tally Youngblood

Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.

I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood

However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay.

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.

I don't have a thing, " Tengo said, "except my soul.""Sounds like a job for Mephistopheles, " she said.

Moving on is something everybody has to do. Once you do that then everything will become more clear to you and life.

Evil is a cluster of well orchestrated blind spots. When it manifests itself to excess, we protest and want the blind spots that both produce it and conceal it back, and fast.

I have to trust what I do and then do it.

If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their offices and demand that they answer him honestly.

Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

I think my books are better than my exhibitions. If people don't like my books then I don't mind. I guess you like them enough to write an essay about them so that makes me pretty happy.

The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.

The fact is, I am in my third marriage and I do not believe in divorce. But I was half the problem, I guarantee you. More than half the problem. I couldn't negotiate with the other women.

People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.