Why should I want what's good for me?' Beatrice asked him, smiling. 'Is that what you want for yourself - only what's good for you?

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Headstrong is just a word, Katie - a word others call you when you don't do what they want.

There is something about the fifteen-year-old mind -- a kind of skin or veil or walling off from feelings not your own.

Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.

Listening to liberals invoke the sanctity of "science" to promote their crackpot ideas creates the same uneasy feeling as listening to Bill Clinton cite Scripture.

In politics, what appears is.

And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words.

The stated objective and the mission of Vladimir Putin's Russia is to destabilize the North Atlantic Alliance.

A lot of people have come to Krishna consciousness through prasadam. I mean, this process is the only kind of yoga that you can actually practice by eating.

That was my goal in portraying Jesse Owens: bringing that level of humanity so people could understand who he was as a person.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.