It's better to oversleep and miss the boat than get up early and sink.

A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.

I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late.

When you fall asleep after a big lunch you're really just saving up energy to work off all the calories later on.

I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high.

You can't run from feelings, Charity. You have to face them. Otherwise your future will look just like your past.

A massage is just like a movie, really relaxing and a total escape, except in a massage you're the star. And you don't miss anything by falling asleep!

I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience

Holidays were invented so single women could overeat without feeling guilty.

Laughter is just like champagne -- only without the headache afterwards.

I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I prefer to keep my grief intact.

So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.

Some choices will either make you perish or prosper, choose properly.

Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.

I believe that all women are pretty without makeup- but with the right makeup can be pretty powerful.

Europe tends to favor stability over democracy, America democracy over stability.

For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.

I can go for a week without a guitar, but it's not even funny if I don't get to surf for a month.

Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played upon by a divine hand, but not a man!

One of the great things about collecting contemporary art is that you mix with contemporary people.

There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.