I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.

I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

The thing I love about television is that people watch you in their pajamas, and when they're eating dinner. You're part of the family.

The secret of living a full life is to be fully engaged, moment to moment, to have something in your life that engages you so that there's nothing missing.

For 50 percent of Americans marriage is forever, for the rest of us there is another adventure.

If people are watching television by themselves, it makes them part of a community of people laughing.

Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words.

I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.

Only when you are able to hear the songs of a tree will you be able to understand the magnificence and magic of life.

Everything hurts until you become good at hurting everything around too.

It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie.

Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go forward.

One who is mild rather than forceful has greater capacity for outreach.

There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better.

You win and lose as a team.

We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.

Taste goodness before you recommend it.

letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.