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Was I wearing my 'I'm done with my virginity, please get rid of it for me' T-shirt?

When I'm writing I don't feel any pressure. It's after I'm done that I start freaking out. But really, when I'm in Lebanon, I don't write much because I'm surrounded by family. I feel immersed, or enmeshed, in too many currents. I love that, but it's not conducive to writing. In San Francisco, nothing interferes with me but my cats.

The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.

From the first day I joined that family, nothing could be done naturally any more.

I'm your nightmare. Did you think you were done with nightmares, now you've become one?

Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false; but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof.

How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done! [Lat., Ut acerbum est, pro benefactis quom mali messem metas!]

I’ve done what Lorien has intended me to do, and that’s to undo damage that’s been inflicted on those who don’t deserve it.

People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.

I work just as much as I always worked. And I can't explain the fact that there have been a series of books coming rather regularly out of me. I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of the year you have 365. So the pages accumulate and then I publish the books.

To those of you who would classify yourselves as conservatives I would say, meditate long and hard on Jesus' saying "Whatever you do to the least of these you have done to me".

The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father.

I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.

I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

I remember Bob Dylan saying in an interview that at a certain point he'd had to learn to do consciously what he'd previously done unconsciously or automatically. That resonates.

It's the one who doesn't know it can't be done who does it!

The world we are in today is likely to end catastrophically, as many other human worlds have done before.

It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!

I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones.

I think I'm in control of what I do and what I've done. I think that's the ultimate feminine power. Do as you want.

I guess, yeah. I've always loved improv. It's my thing. I really like it, but I also think it has to be done well.

Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done.

I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile. Recognizing that I am part of history is what allows me to soar.

But I could never have done it," he objected, "without everyone else's help." "That may be true," said Reason gravely,"but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'