I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.

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.

Do not create opportunities for beasts and evils to take charge of your life.

We are apart so that I will know the joy of being with you again. Take care of yourself, wherever you are. Take care of yourself, wherever you are.

God is all powerful.God is mighty.God is has power over all rulers and authorities.

Enlightenment should be a human right.

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

Make sure the thing you're living for is worth dying for.

We have deficits with everybody. Who do we have a positive with?

History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.

There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.