Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me.

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs.

The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.

I want to shake them for their ignorance and scream that their Sistine Chapel is filled with cracks.

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.

I looked on Jesus and the dove of peace entered my heart. I looked at the dove of peace; and lo...off he went.

Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.

To speak of love is to make love.

The anger of those in authority is always weighty.

Pulque - lightning nectar for the Gods.

What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.

Whenever something good comes up that sounds like I could be part of the project, my manager and my agents send me in on it.

I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust