Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.

I lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.

When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.