Because everyone is guilty for everyone else. For all the 'wee ones,' because there are little children and big children. All people are 'wee ones.' And I'll go for all of them, because there must be someone who will go for all of them.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

Christopher Hitchens

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Madame de Maintenon

But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

Albert Einstein

She understands suddenly that the stuff that fills her up is not the love or attention she might get from other people; it is the love she herself has for other people. We are, Portia decides, the people we love

Jessica Anya Blau

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

Norah Jones

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

Jon Stewart

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

Robert Reed

Commitment is an act, not a word.

Jean-Paul Sartre

...was an elegant woman in a city of so many thousands of elegant women...

Ann Patchett

she felt this thing that she called life terrible, hostile, and quick to pounce on you if you gave it a chance. There were the eternal problems: suffering; death; the poor. There was always a woman dying of cancer even here. And yet she had said to all these children, You shall go through with it.

Virginia Woolf

La Tia was fearless, but that could mean either that she had no guile or that she had no conscience.

Orson Scott Card

My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne.

Lea Michele