Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.

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.

You get used to... what you want to get used to.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.

One difference between artists and ordinary people is that artists have big egos. In some cases, it's the only difference.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

The use of quantity of money as a target has not been a success. I'm not sure that I would as of today push it as hard as I once did.

Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

Think what we would have missed if we had never ... used a mobile phone or surfed the Net -- or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.

Anything I really want I can find online.