In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.

Believe when you are most unhappy that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten anothers pain life is not in vain.

We must weed out corruption and build a strong system of justice that the people can trust.

Even criticism is more interesting when the writer's authority does not only come through this omniscient narrator, but through questions, ambivalence, vulnerability. A mind questioning and on the move, not just settling down and declaring - that's one of the most interesting possibilities.

Opportunity makes a thief.

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.

The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.

I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it.

I think being an Asian woman has been more of an advantage than a disadvantage. It helps me stand out from the rest of the entertainers out there. Again, being from such an ethnically diverse place like New York, you get comfortable and confident with being different!

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.

In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems.

I would never want to deny my Mennonite background and culture; I'll always feel like and be identified as a Mennonite and therefore possess that little extra authority on our beliefs. I also see myself as a Canadian writer.

Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.

Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.

Almost all accidents take place because of human distraction.

For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow.

The way I like to think about it is, even though I started music early - I started in classical music - it wasn't until I discovered jazz that I really fell in love with music and realized this was what I wanted to do for a living.

Some of us walk around with a necklace of hope, an armour of sanity, but at the end of the day, they always come off. We reveal our naked, vulnerable, real selves.

The fact is that 'The Wizard Of Oz' has never really worked in the theatre. The film has one or two holes where, in the theatre, you need a song. For example, there's nothing for either of the two witches to sing.

Producing clean energy from non-recyclable waste is an important part of my future vision for family company Visy Australia.

To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.

More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.

On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.