Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric.

Relationships take time and energy, and your job kind of sucks that all out of you. It takes an extra effort to stay present in a relationship when you are working kind of hours.

Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.

When fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up with.

The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.

All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.

Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith

The good is always the enemy of the best.

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.