Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.

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.

Maybe I am everything I knew that I would never be. I looked back at Jay and smiled.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Even if you are threatened with death, look at your situation right in the eye and praise the Lord

It's cute how I used to think this 'barely holding it together' feeling was temporary.

Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.

To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating.

Some people you speak to you speak into their heads. It's logical.

I do yoga and weights, mainly. I still box. I box once a week, but I don't get punched in the face anymore. I just hit the bags now. I'm done with that competitive side of it.

I'd love to go and camp out and live in a tent in the middle of nowhere and see how long I could live and survive.

There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.