The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.

The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the universe - these concepts have become important to me, and I hope they're at work in my life on a minute-by-minute basis.

A Margo for each of us--and each more mirror than window.

She fell apart because that's what happens.

The kiss lasted forever as Otto Frank kept talking from behind me. "And my conclusion is," he said, "since I had been in very good terms with Anne, that most parents don't know really their children.

You know, like when you look in the mirror and the thing you see is not the thing as it really is.

He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.