Quotes About Boundaries

I don't take characters home with me.

Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the 'conspicuously industrious' blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere.

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

If you come home with your panties still on, I am never speaking to you again.

Don't date a woman who gives you a pager number instead of a home number (she's looking for control).

For some, the universe ends at the borders of their villages; even for others, at the threshold of their home doors.

The fact is, I have a great home and I like to have people come up. I meet enough people just doing my grocery shopping; I don't need to go out and meet any more people.

Callie always said Luce was incapable of brutal honesty and that was why she got herself stuck in so many crappy situations with guys whom she should have just told no.

You can say no if that is more truthful than a resentful yes.

Don't condemn me to the prison of your bullshit.

I honor and protect my sensitivity.

Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was a sign that a mom said no when it counted.

Rose, I cheat at cards and buy liquor for minors. But I would never, ever force you into something you don't want.

Sometimes I imagine a surveyor 100 years from now reading my plan, retracing my boundaries, and finding the monuments that I set. It's an honor to make a mark in history like that.

Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible.

Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out!

"You need hedges.""Hedges," I said, bemused. "Yes, Edgar." He looked surprised and a little disappointed, as if I had failed to understand a very simple concept. "Hedges against the night."

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

Even as a waste disposal site, the world is finite.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Don't get me wrong, I like to cuddle. But there is such a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so that they can't get away.

There's a fine line between masturbating while you look out a window, and masturbating while you're looking in a window. I'll give you a hint: one of 'em is super illegal.

He's always asking: 'Is that new? I haven't seen that before.' It's like, Why don't you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.