[The damage in New York was] greater than expected.
Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year.
That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.
The secret is that there is no secret.
There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain. . . . Unlike the slight implications of quotidian dilemmas that confront the average citizen in other areas of life. . . the stakes in this realm could not be higher. For chances are that at some point along the line you will hold in your hands another person's heart. There is no greater responsibility on the planet. However you contend with this fragile organ, which pounds or seizes in accordance with your caprice, will take your full measure.
You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.
The existence of other people is essentially awkward.
Diets are essentially traning courses in how to feel fat and feel like a failure
Yet we have a voting system that forbids us from actually bringing our values into our vote, which is, in my view, quite a disaster.
Fluency in English is something that I'm often not accused of.
O flower-de-luce, bloom on, and let the river Linger to kiss thy feet! O flower of song, bloom on, and make forever The world more fair and sweet.