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

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.

I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?

We weren't a couple, but friends didn't spoon every night. Fate and I were officially in relationship-no-man's-land.

Love has no demand of us but to keep practicing, to do the next hard thing. Love says, Come dear. Take the next step.

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

I love it when people ask who my influences are... or what my favorite part of my last book was... or the last great book I read.

The zoo cannot but disappoint.

Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth something strange and terrible to fill up our discourse and our astonishment.

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

I kept telling myself this word, process. Focus on my process, don't care about the result.

God keep me from the divinity of Yes and Nothe Yea Nay Creeping Jesus, from supposing Up and Down to be the same thing as allexperimentalists must suppose.