Home is where the heart is and hence a movable feast.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

A big part of dealing with depression is realizing that you are in control of your own happiness.

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.

I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

Less power to religion, the greater power to knowledge

[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.

When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

I try my best to learn from other people's mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.

Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick.

Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.

The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.