How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?

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.

We need to get rid of hate, envy, jealousy, discord in ourselves, so we can reach a solution in terms of peace in order to feel that time has come for human happiness.

Never assume you know it all. Ask questions.

He's always been known to be entrepenurious.

My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house.

Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.

The trouble with women is men; the trouble with men, men.

There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed.

So at the request of educators I wrote the World Core Curriculum, the product of the United Nations, the meta-organism of human and planetary evolution.

One of the most important things about social media is knowing when to put the phone down and experience your life.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.