Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.

If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover.

Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.

Eighty's a landmark and people treat you differently than they do when you're seventy-nine. At seventy-nine, if you drop something it just lies there. At eighty, people pick it up for you.

Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages and friendships come apart.

People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God.

When you get to be my age, all your friends have either died or moved to Florida.

Fear is for the old. Lack of it is one of the joys of youth.

It's especially fitting that they call a cruise ship 'she,' for she is pregnant with a thousand adult embryos who long to stay forever warm and sheltered in this great white womb.

The rush of power to the head is not as becoming as a new hat

Even angels must find their wings too heavy sometimes.

I especially like eavesdropping on women my age. Besides being titillating, it also helps me gauge where I'm at in comparison.

Whenever domination is present, love is lacking.

The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.

I have a foolproof device for judging whether a picture is good or bad. If my fanny squirms, it's bad. If my fanny doesn't squirm, it's good.

Instead of focusing on men and focusing on what we can do to prop them up, people seem really incredibly focused on the fact that women are doing well and maybe that's not such a good thing.

I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you.

My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can convey the essence of life.

Immigration is a sensitive topic.

The roots and herbes beaten and put into new ale or beer and daily drunk, cleareth, strengtheneth and quickeneth the sight of the eyes.

I have something to say. I know how to do something. I’m doing it. If you want me to do it with you, raise your hand.