Love, like alcoholism, comes to a point of no return.

Consumerism is our national religion.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

Longing is all that lasts.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.

I read much more that I do anything else. I don't watch too much television, because I like books.

When I write for myself, I just get to be myself.

Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to meet and work with.

love at any age takes everything you've got.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

If he takes the option of dropping behind the point where the ball rests, keeping in line with the pin, his nearest drop is Honolulu.

Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind

I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.