Integrity pays, but not in cash.

Consumerism is our national religion.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

Longing is all that lasts.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

I always returned from my travels with new books.

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

I've had plenty of good times and have settled peacefully into quite a boring existence that I love. I had enough fireworks and chaos. It is a blissful boring life, believe me.

Strong line quality, composition and form are more crucial although even this is loosely done.

The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable.

I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.

Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.

I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.

Your body is a form of energy slowed down to assume the appearance of mass. And the mind directs the energy that determines the form.

If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.