Art is the product of an imperfect world. In a perfect world, art would not exist.

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

Philosophers console themselves with explanations.

The search for first causes is the ultimate wild goose chase.

When you separate thought from life, you get philosophy.

Logical positivism is philosophy from the neck up.

The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.

No explanation is ever as good as not having one.

The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.

I'd like to break some new ground, maybe in TV presenting, rather than just be an actress.

I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.

I'm trying to do what Frank O'Hara did and remind myself there there's a lot of good stuff. I write about New York for my own mental health.

That's emails for ya: sometimes they're like an arrow that hits so deep in the target, you can't pull it out.

We put this 15-year old girl on the cover of a fashion magazine, and tell everyone she is the epitome of sexual perfection, but we jail anyone who touches her for another three years.

I have a lot of fans in the Tea Party, and they disagree with me vehemently. But they're fans, so we meet and connect and talk, so I'm open to everything.

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

It's never too late to begin a life or a book.

If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if

I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.