I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.

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.

A man should not compete with his wife in talk but in silence

In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force.

I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve.

There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland.

The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognisable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called in question.

America is perhaps excessively mobile in the sense that there is sometimes not enough stability in communities. Dynamism in the economy is not necessarily the "be all and end all".

It's a mystery to me what makes people laugh.

Deep down, I believed that I was supposed to win. And if I didn’t, it was because of ME.

I am so not technically proficient at all.

I reached the stage where I was afraid to wiggle my leg, but then I thought 'why shouldn't I?' It's what I do and now I know how to turn an audience on again.