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There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.
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Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
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The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the distempered mind of those who traduce and injure us.
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When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself into.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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One of the best ways to seed an opportunity is to allow someone to discover the opportunity for him- or herself.
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I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.
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I should hate to be a regular girl with a sugar-plum voice. I should hate to have swan-like lashes, and a thick, sooty neck. I sound as though I’m joking, I know, but I should truly hate to be like Leanne, so charming and ordinary and stuffed with clichéd feelings. I’m glad I’m the ice maiden. Who wants to be crying over every stray dog? Not I. Scratch my surface and what do you see? More surface.
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No man or woman can live another's fate
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The days when the words Hollywood actor framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.
