[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time.

The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world, and we should have nothing to do with it.

I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.

Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.

The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.

Love is never any better than the lover.

When she awoke there was a melody in her head she could not identify or recall ever hearing before. 'Perhaps I made it up,' she thought. Then it came to her - the name of the song and all its lyrics just as she had heard it many times before. She sat on the edge of the bed thinking, 'There aren't any more new songs and I have sung all the ones there are. I have sung them all. I have sung all the songs there are.