That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.

There is no known cure for severe affection for one's cat. The only way to relieve the symptoms is to go ahead and launch a kiss attack.

I want to party in space because I make alien music.

You can't call any one person the devil. Because no one person has the power to be the devil.

Yes, O Great One, I shall do as you command. Then when we come back empty-pawed, you'll admit I was right." - Squirrelflight to Brambleclaw

Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under.

The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

I think that sometimes the most intelligent things that prosecutors do is when they exercise their discretion not to go forward with a case.

I don't think that jealousy and love and hate and anger and all those things have changed in the past 200 years - people just express themselves differently.

Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.