Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.

There are those of us who believe that under certain conditions the cruelest thing you can do to people you love is to force them to live. There are those of us who define living not by whether the heart beats and the lungs lift but whether the spirit is there, whether the music box plays.

I think that we really fool ourselves about our ability to be safe and secure nowadays.

For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like weddings.

People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile and salivating roots own dogs.

I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.

Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.