Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.

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.

joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life’s terms

We are the things we don't remember, the blank spaces, the forgotten words.

I WANNA GET ROUGH!""I NEED TO GET ROWDY!""I'M FEELING KINDA RECKLESS!

I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

Born free. Taxed to death.

The real issue is how to make appropriate choices about what to do at any point in time. The real issue is how we manage actions.

Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?

Hills tell old stories. Cliffs are poets with harps.

Greg starts a middle school and asks: Why is "bullies" such a big PROBLEM? And says people need to shave twice a day.