Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

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.

The world's most sensible and the most idiotic person lies within us..the worst part is we can't say who is who

Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.

Every increase in knowledge requires an increase in wisdom

Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience.

I think [social media] is fundamentally restructuring the whole nature of information and how it's expressed in America.

I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.

The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.

No temptation, no pressure, no enticing can overcome us unless we allow such. If we make the wrong choice, we have no one to blame but ourselves.

Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.