"Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief."

“You couldn't make the fans throw up their hands if they swallowed their fingers.”

“I'm kind of like a relic from another era.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“When people ask me which I would rather give up, writing or medicine, it's like being asked which eye I'd prefer to have poked out with a spoon: neither, and please use a fork.”

“Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.”

“A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.”

“Words don't come easily, like forgive me.”

Source : Song: Baby Can I Hold You, Album: Tracy Chapman, 1988

“If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.”

“I went to college in Amherst and lived in Northampton for many years and we had our quaint little feminist sex toy shop that somehow made it in town and wasn't scandalous. But you still got the vibe once in awhile that this didn't used to be okay. That twenty years ago women would have come in saying, "You can't sell realistic-looking sex toys. You have to only sell things that look like dolphins or something."”