A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.

I’m not afraid of total failure. In the end, we’re all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

I worry about images. Images are what things mean.

Things looked funny because my pictures depend on an emotional state... I know this is true and I thought about this for a long time. Somehow it made me feel very, very good.

The more that you are being your ideas, the less human you are. The deeper your realization, being in your heart, the more of your humanness you come into.

Many people have fond memories of 'The Monkees.' I fondly remember it, too.

Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.

Meeting people in a genuine way and feeling like there is a vital and meaningful connection going on makes me come alive.

There has been a little distress selling on the stock exchange.