I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.

I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

I always say the new album is the best one yet. I always feel that - I really do, because it's the latest and it's the newest and it's a little bit better.

The only person I really believe in is me.

I could be a housewife… I guess I’ve vacuumed a couple of times.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

The only thing I really wanted to be was a beatnik, and look what happened: I ended up being in a band.

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.

How can one be a woman and not be a feminist? That's my question.

If God is truth, that truth must reign supreme on the earth even as he reigns over the universe

Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.

Want to get your kids to read more? Try making books easily accessible. Put them where kids can easily reach and don't make them off limits. (within reason)

I want to be able to live without a crowded calendar. I want to be able to read a book without feeling guilty or go to a concert when I like.

A slave is but half a man.

When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.

The greatest of all miracles is to be alive.

Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination.

People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.

The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and humiliates him.