I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

Dan Quayle

Teamwork is the quintessential contradiction of a society grounded in individual achievement.

Marvin R. Weisbord

Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues.

Iba Ezra

My background is in health care.

Bobby Jindal

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

Francis Bacon

Even the people we most admire often feel inadequate.

Andrew Matthews

Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.

W. Somerset Maugham

Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.

Jerry Saltz

I belive that there is a subtile magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It is not indifferent to us which way we walk. There is a right way; but we are very liable from heedlessness and stupidity to take the wrong one. We would fain take that walk, never yet taken by us through this actual world, which is perfectly symbolical of the path which we love to travel in the interior and ideal world; and sometimes, no doubt, we find it difficult to choose our direction, because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.

Henry David Thoreau

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Mahatma Gandhi

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

Jim Bouton

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

Harriet Ann Jacobs