If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.

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.

Finished crap can be edited. Unfinished greatness languishes forever. The only bad writing is the thing you didn't write!

I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

They wanted to buy out my contract, but I couldn't make change for a $20, so they had to let me stay.

McDonald's Meets Moschino at Milan Fashion Week

My weak spot is that I don't like analyzing so I tend to be a bit lazy; I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

I’ve never wanted to meet anyone I’ve been introduced to. I want to meet all the other people.

If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.

I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.