Feelings are for the soul what food is for the body.

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder.

I found myself doing so much public speaking, more and more and bigger and bigger.

Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation.

I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.

The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Right now, huge numbers of people cannot obtain even drinking water, and the situation is likely to become worse with predicted climate change and failure to take the actions that are necessary.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

When I tried to do something else, everyone behaved as if I was Gypsy Rose Lee trying to paint a Matisse.