That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not despise!" I said, and felt that it was true.

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.

But, God knows best, I concluded.

The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?

One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather.

In the cause of expedience and the quest for information, man has always been willing to trump his laws and betray his beliefs to legitimize the torture of those who do not share them.

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

Busted. I'm a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless-and shockingly handsome-alter ego.

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

I really like Arsenal. But you, do you like Arsenal? Or just Arsenal with Trophies?

You don't have to be equal, you don't have to be better, you don't have to be worse. You can just be at peace.

I think Oz is the type of show that makes you turn away in fear and in horror, so for a television show, thats pretty intense.

A lot of what's been written about me is not true: of my family history or my choices or my interests. Actually, I've never read anything written about me that was true. It's been completely crazy.

...you can't play any defense if the other team is on the foul line.

What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.