I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world.

Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals.

There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.

We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it.

Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.

Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real.

Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life.

Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.

Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess.

I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner.

Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another.

Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.

There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.

Why am I the only one who thinks she’s messing with us? - Egg

I try not to dwell too much on a bad marriage.

Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.

I love putting the music together. It's like art

I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.

Basement smells bad. Look for cat poops, change litter.

No, he wasn't a pig. He was a lonely, hurt man who didn't know how to cope in a world that had turned its back on him. [Astrid]

Growing around great musicians, you just can't help it. I identified with it immediately. It was something that was so natural to me that when I started singing, it was almost like speaking.