I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.

By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

By not forgiving yourself you are limiting your ability to give to others.

I'm very fond of experimental housekeeping.

I loved Clinton; not as a Democrat, but as a person.

When you can't afford to hire the best, you hire the young who are going to be the best.

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.

The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.

I learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio a couple of times and hear the song and the lyrics and sing it for you after a couple of plays.

The absolutely worst thing that could happen to anybody in politics when they're appearing in public is to sweat.

A melancholy sound is in the air, A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail Around my dwelling. 'Tis the Wind of night.