You find that you have lot of time on your hands when you suddenly are not drinking because you are pregnant.

Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention.

Lovely chatting with you, darling, but I've got to run. Face it, you're always more content when you're chasing me than when you have me locked up. I think we're going to have a lot of fun.

Our relationship is complicated by the fact that I am emotionally retarded.

There will be time to diet when people stopped killing one another.

Whatever you think this is going to be like," she whispers, "it's going to be worse.

Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects.

She was a beautiful girl, but the lack of any spark dampened her prettiness.

He had talked to hundreds of witnesses. And he knew that if someone felt pressured, they would try too hard, and their imagination would fill what their memory couldn't recover.

Josie, like Gretchen, isn't afraid of blood. What woman would be?

No duh, Susan said. You are like a walking vault of things you don't tell people. People who have secrets should pay you to hold on to them for them. You could be like a secret bank.

Never let the sacrifice of others be for nothing by doing nothing.

If you aren't outraged, then you just aren't paying attention

The voice is Jacob's voice but the hands are the hands of Esau.

Clarity affords focus.

Creating art or something beautiful makes you a more fulfilled person than they can ever be because they're caught up in what they hate rather than what they love.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

Anybody who is stupid enough often stumbles on an effect that could never be thought up by the most brilliant. I suspect that there is a thing which you might call the genius of stupidity.

If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.

Directing is not a job. It's more like a career. Which is great!

The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable harmony.