We will paste upon the curled pages words Like charming and romantic and sentimental Forgetting that charming is witchcraft Romantic is love And sentiment is what makes us human

History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.

You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.

It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.

If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud!

Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.

Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.

Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.

I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia.

Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.

Once upon a time is now.

Life has only one equation. The equation of giving.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

The Internet is fast becoming a cesspool where false information thrives.

I'm going down the apples and pears, into the jam jar, down the frog and toad into the rub-da-dub-dub, and I'm going to have pig's ear.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

You ever get any death threats? How about ex-husbands or ex-boyfriends? You run over anyone recently?” ~ Morelli

I'm like a one-woman protest machine.

I read somewhere that drummers are practically Olympic athletes. I feel pretty good, most of the time. After 38 years, I can't expect much better than that!

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.