I find it a great antidote lipstick and mirrors and hairspray.

I think handbags, not so much clothes anymore, but I think you can tell a fashion victim by their handbag.

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

I don't feel like I am 66 at all. I feel more like I am 35. But I have a bus pass so it must be true.

To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.

I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.

Sure, good things can go badly wrong. Nevertheless, there's always another day.

I've been given this blessing, which is my granddaughter. You're no longer just you. You suddenly fit into the chest of drawers of life.

I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.

You must swear never to go on the dole. Never be bored. Find something to do. And don't yawn.

I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it.

The wounds from that time have already become scabs.

I'd rather write poetry than watch TV it allows me to share the wide screen in me.

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

You discover yourself through the research of your work.

The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature that might more obviously qualify as 'religious.'

We twist our souls around each other’s miseries.

Charities must treat donors as if they were shareholders.

People aren't born racist.

It's not whether people like you but whether they share the bright dreams...and understand the heartbeat of the country.

I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.