Conflict is the soul of literature.

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.

The chaos on our planet, the plundering of resources, and the division of humanity are not the true works of any kind of man. They are the work of those who conquer over man.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.

My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.

Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great and important things.

Modeling isn't all that tough.

Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.