Driving home I switch on the radio and one of those old Motown voices comes on and reaches my heart.

If I was ever glad to have gone, I was never glad to go.

If you have the bad MOJO of a situation or a person riding you down you must first remove that saddle.

Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.

... the mere thought of going near a man who is not mellowly pickled, and whose breath reeks of his native fleshy self, is squeamishly unpalatable to me.

But reality television is here to stay.

I’ve discovered that my best work comes from the uncomfortable but fruitful feeling of not having a clue – of being worried, secretly afraid, even convinced that I’m on the wrong track.

Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.

It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.