My ultimate fantasy is to entice a man to my bedroom, put a gun to his head and say, 'Make babies or die'.

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?

I don't combine proteins and carbohydrates.

Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad.

People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.

For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.

How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?

College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

By the time dessert arrives I am usually so drunk, I can't remember what I'm serving.

Only if you're kind to yourself, can you be kind to others.

You reveal your character by what you do with what you have.

It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.

A secretary must think like a man act like a lady look like a girl - and work like a dog.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

One must exploit the asynchronies that have befallen one, link them to a promising issue or domain, reframe frustrations as opportunities, and, above all, persevere.

My entire social life is spent in bars, so I don't see giving up drinking as a viable option. Could you see me saying, 'Tomato juice please?'

The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

Everybody gets pinched but you did it right. You told them nothing and they got nothing. You learned the two greatest things in life: Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.

Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.