Hope for the best, expect the worst.

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.

Life is a magnificent sacred journey of the soul.

Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams.

Shine brightly thy inner light.

One cannot worship the false god of nationalism and the God of Christianity at the same time. .

The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.

The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all.

My approach has always been rather sensual.

I want to strangle whoever invented that R-Patz thing.

Be the inspiration you want to see in others

All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.