I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

You cannot forever escape from the storm

Every time I think about that girl, my mind commits a sin.

Hitting "like" on a social media platform is the modern day version of clapping at the end of a performance.

Change the problem by changing your mind.

A boat can't have two captains.

What's the point of washing off your ball when teeing off on a water hole?

What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles? [A Herring]

I love London. I loved it when I went there in the late '50s.