The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Defiance through compliance.

Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.

The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

Is not most talkingA crazed defense of a crumbling fort?I thought we came hereTo surrender in Silence.

Is there a price too great to pay for your own happiness? What is the price that you are willing to pay for your own happiness?

Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.

I wouldn't really call myself a feminist. I obviously want equality and equal opportunities to the men.

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.

The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.

To dismiss the current extinction wave on the grounds that extinctions are normal events is like ignoring a genocidal massacre on the grounds that every human is bound to die at some time anyway.

It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child, while not being loved as a child is loved, but merely being kept alive against one's will.

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.