"There's a difference to being humble and being humbled"

“And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.”

“If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.”

“Men and women will forever make gods of others rather than see the god in themselves.”

Source : Ki Longfellow (2007). “The Secret Magdalene: A Novel”, p.404, Crown

“Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women.”

“I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.”

“Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens.”

“I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements, and my senior year was really a gut year. And I said, 'Law school will always be there.' I was in no hurry to get right into that.”

“I am scared of becoming a mother.”