Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?

I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me. And the cost is more than I can bear.

My father is using me as a message of hope. My sister is using me as a message of fear.I don't want to be used by anybody.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

The same thing that had happened with the flowers was happening with my longing: once I held it in my hands, I didn't know where to put it.

Humor that is edgy is never squeaky clean.

Going home, spending time with the family, I feel they're my friends as well, all of them. I look forward to meeting any one of them for a coffee, and when we all get together, I just love it.

Who dare to love their country, and be poor.

I agree that [marriage] should be treated like a business deal. But every business deal has to have its own terms and its own kind of currency.

Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.

It's either hip or it ain't.

Platonic friendship-the interval between the introduction and the first kiss.