“I think the biggest lie the devil ever told was that beauty and goodness are the same.”

“Do you know what makes someone beautiful? Confidence. You don't have to have this shape eyes or that shape lips. No one seems to be able to decide which shape is best anyway. You can have every kin...”

“If it looks real and feels real, do you think it matters if it's real?”

“It's not worth losing your soul to win a guy.”

“The world is full of stupid people. That's why we have rules. But with enough intelligence, a person can be above the rules. She can make rules.”

“Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history -- and I am a student of human history.”

“We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma ...”

“If only it were possible to love without injury fidelity isnt enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body...”

“She looks at the swings, and I can see shes imagining what theyd look like if the kids werent there. The guilt of this holds her down momentarily. It appears to be there constantly. Never far away,...”

“All art is quite useless.”