I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.

I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.

I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do.... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery.

Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.