You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew. —STEPHEN CRANE, The Colors
It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap...
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
I used to be a cool chick but I'm not anymore.
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.
Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.
Sometimes it's hard to look at a flower, when your dying inside.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the fu...