I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in...
Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial a structure civilization is, and how precariously it is poised upon the apex of a never-extinct volcano of poor and...
I think that there always have been and always will be at least two Americas - the poor America, the second America, tends to be in the shadows. Sometimes it's an America of people in a ghetto of color, sometimes it's an economic ghetto, but definite...
A lobster loves water, but not when he's being cooked in it.
Being young is a fault which improves daily.
Hair does not grow faster by being pulled.
People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
Without emotion, what's the point of being human?
Oh,clever... what's the use of that? Are they human beings?
I Don't sparkle ........I Bite !!!
Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.
Human beings have their great chance in the novel.
We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces
Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point.
It's fun being a girl.
Wisdom mitigates the risk of being honest.
Your fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival.
NEVER be surprised by your own success!
Your life is a print-out of your thoughts.
The bank of love is never bankrupt.
Your fear of the truth does not hide or dilute it.
