I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

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.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

The best thing a society can do is ensure its children are taken care of.

Heartbeat, why do you skip when my baby's lips meet mine?

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.

Perhaps all a Tsaritsa is is a beautiful cold girl in the snow, looking down at someone wretched, and not yielding.

Night and day, you are the one.

The best medicine for despair is service.

We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard... Everything was 10th-generation Led Zeppelin... Overproduced, or just junk. We missed music like it used to be.

Everything I touch is a success.

Mark it down—your progress in holiness will never exceed your relationship with the holy Word of God.