Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.

Human beings cannot live without stories.

The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible.

Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you.

(God) being the old man invented in order to, and with whom to, hold long conversations.

I came on earth for something, I must do something, and I must live and leave not just anything, but something!

Decision power is knowledge-based, wisdom-driven and character-oriented.

We have an infinite supply of information and yet we cannot read.

Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change?

I rarely think in words at all.

You're never going to get beyond other people's preconceptions of what you are and what you're about.

I also think swimmers are pretty fashion conscious and mos aren't always the best accessory to be rocking. Haha.

So in my mind I own a lot of house records still

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.