We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.
It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.
There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.
A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.
She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.
She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
I don't like to have to depend on someone else to reset the props. It's like, "No, you've gotta take responsibility for it. " I know how things fit and feel. To reset that stuff myself, it's easy. The prop guys are hilarious because I'll have one set of gloves and I'll keep reusing them to get the most out of it. They're like, "We've got boxes of these. "
What is pure Bill? Or excellent or admirable? The death of a million people in a flood? God evidently through so. He is incapable of acts that are not admirable, and it is He who brought about the Flood. How about the slaying of children in Jericho? There are a few Bible stories that are not as terrible as they are happy. We just prefer to leave out the terrible part, but that only makes the good anemic.
Although I really like the people I travel with, family is just different, and having them around at all times is a really nice thing - and a luxury.
I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.