It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

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.

I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric.

To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong.

Life never seizes to have a brighter side of it. Unfortunately, many are blindfolded from seeing it because they are fully focused on its dark side.

When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people. May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings. And leave the bitter bullshit rotten white parts alone.

The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence.

Work on your strong points because they are what made you.

The sooner you step away from your comfort zone, the sooner you'll realize that it wasn't really all that comfortable.

When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography.

There are several ways to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory.

Civilization, or "the system" or "society" or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free men.