I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.

organization is the religion of the single parent.

For scientists, reality is not optional.

That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story.

Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.

You think you're the foreigner here, and I'm the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I'm a foreigner, too.