My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

Memory, of course, is unreliable, often evil, but it is the source of our identity."--Tennessee Williams

When the sky’s falling, I take shelter under bullshit.

Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC's hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know.

Our toil is lessened, and our wealth is increased, by our dominion over the useful animals . . .

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer.