I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.

If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.

Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?

People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.

Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells

The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.

There is no great love than the love of God.

De La Soul, from the soul, black medallions, no gold.

I used to drink, I did, I had to quit. Man, I was an embarrassing drunk. I'd get pulled over by the cops, I'd be so drunk I'd be out dancing to their lights thinking I'd made it to another club.

I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars.

When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe, sometimes laugh, sometimes cry, just like a person, a little person.

I intend to be, the richest man in the world.

I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created.

Of all the 'attitudes' we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.