For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

They have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never read, and the tension between the couples was so thick it nearly choked us.

Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. It's about being there at big moments, but it's also just the consistency of decision making. And it's routine.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

Outgrew the media... The negativity felt like a disease.

Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.

Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.

If you learn to enjoy waiting, you don't have to wait to enjoy.

Don't be a hero. Don't have an ego.

Life begins to happen. My hoppped up husband drops his home disputes, and hits the streets to cruise for prostitutes

Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers.