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The world changes. Ideologues and zealots don't.

All were successful,and felt like failures.Gold no longer pretended to understand the nature of success.Instead,he pretended not to. He knew the components that were necessary:None,or maybe one:Dumb...

The simplest questions are the most difficult.

I've been around comedians that try their bits around you. I hate that.

I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life - regular people.

High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave their comfort zones. The ability to embrace new...

Knowing how to tactfully criticize someone's work is a mentor's job.

'Better Than Home,' the song, is about getting out of your hiding place and having the courage to live as loud as possible. It is about feeling the life that has been given and has been waiting for...

I do think it's well over-time to have a female Doctor Who. I think a gay, black female Doctor Who would be the best of all.

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating...

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

Her sudden grin depleted some of his brain cells. She was evil like that.

So often I'm like, No, thanks, to all of that stuff, just give me the room to exist both in the shit and stars . . . We have to fight to be understood as being distinct and incongruent. But I think it...

She sewed as she read. For the Vicar considered that sewing was an occupation and that reading was not. He was silent as long as his daughter sewed and when she read he talked.

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else.

Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give

Let me never be complete. Let me never be content. Let me never be perfect.

You know what else is hot?" said a nameless blonde as she put her arm around the one black girl. "What?" "Bisexuals." "Totally. Well, not like real bisexuals who are just sort of your everyday people,...

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen. I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen...

It is with imaginary writers that I learn what I want to do. For example, Stephen Dedalus or Nick Adams. I read their lives as a way to understand what it is about. I have no interest in inspiring...

You will see me, like a mountain animal, bitter little animal

WARNING If you dare to read this story, you become part of the Experiment. I know that sounds a little mysterious – but it's all I can say right now.

He paused, thinking, so Dobson asked again that we sit

Ancient lands, in all their prehistoric intactness: lake-solitudes hardly brushed by the hurrying feet of the centuries where the uninterrupted pedigrees of pelican and ibis and heron evolve their...

I want to make people smile. I want to tell an epic story... with laughter. I want to change the way people view the world. I want life to stop being so damn dramatic all the time. I want... what are...

What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green...

Those that much covet are with gain so fond,For what they have not, that which they possessThey scatter and unloose it from their bond,And so, by hoping more, they have but less;Or, gaining more, the...