Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.

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.

I’m a very careful man. Everything I do… Remember this… Everything I do means something to me.

The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying

You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.

I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.

I really thought twice about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when that came in. I always was of a mind that it's an inherently stupid idea to put something like that in a glass case.

I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.

Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.

The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that?

Though we may not necessarily forfeit our lives in service to our God, we can certainly demonstrate our love for Him by how well we serve Him.

In the laboratory the gambits all test unfavorably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board.