What deserves my loyalty, art or prestige?

I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

When in Rome, live in the Roman way.

In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.

You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.

My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.

Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

I'm just very interested in what my guests have to say. You have to be vigilant to stay ignorant.

Going back is a nice way to give definition to each of the characters because they are so vastly different. I would never want them to get blended together.