Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother.
Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.
Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.
The US is indeed a terrorist nation. . . . It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.
Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.
I don't know why there's not more activism today. I do think that your generation is twenty times smarter than our generation ever was, but the problem with being smart like you guys is that it can lead you really easily to being cynical, and cynicism is actually a pacifying attitude.
Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.
As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So.
In the writing phase, normally I try not to envisage any particular actors because I like to let the characters sort of reveal themselves in that process.
The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.
It seemed to Coraline that it was crouching, and staring down at her, as if it were not really a house but only the idea of a house—and the person who had had the idea, she was certain, was not a good person.