I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

What’s her name? Claire, what’s her name?

Before you take that first curious, coerced, spiteful, or vengeful step forward, remember this: it’s a thousand times easier to slip into a muddy pit than it is to climb out of one.

If you catch poisonous fish, throw it back into the sea.

When the gods are angry with a man they give him what he asks for.

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

At least when it's in French, I won't know what the heck they're saying.

Praise none too much, for all are fickle.

Rock 'n roll was born in the South, man. It's like saying rock-rock.

Nothing wrong with people getting shot, as long as it's the right people getting shot.

Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.