The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.

Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything, et cetera et cetera.' How monotonous, how useless this becomes. What about the honors of Joan of Arc, Beauvoir, Stowe, Xena, Princess Leia, or women that would truly fight for something other than just their own emotions?