A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

Poetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies

If you do not manage power, it will burn you.

To awaken quite alone in a strange parallel universe is the priceless moment to a time traveler!

Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

Our mantra is that 90 percent of all television is bad, and ten percent has never been better. We make fun of that 90 percent.

Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away.

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

Walt Disney was my great hero.