Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.

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.

Now you be careful in the real world" said Armpit " Not everyone is as nice as us.

Books ... rarely if ever talk about what children can make of themselves about the powers that from the day or moment of birth are present in every child.

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

Enchantment is the purest form of sales

... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

No one wants to stay in the tabloids. But it's actually not a terrible place to start.

I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).

There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: "I shall suffer," and "I shall die.

Rich people collect land. Poor people collect bills.

If you have more than 120 or 130 I.Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don't need extraordinary intelligence to succeed as an investor.