I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

Debt is the worst poverty.

Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human.

If you're not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we'll discuss your options afterwards.

If you are made for flight, intended for it, you had better find a pursuer, fast. Otherwise, all that fleeing is going nowhere.

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

The more innocent you are, the more blissful you will be.

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.

Through yoga practice you can change the course of your life by purifying your karma. But to do that you must have an idea of where you've been and where you want to go.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, photographers are worth a million.