Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life.

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.

If life’s pen passion is ink!

I live in the realm of love and light.

Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths...

Loving a country is an act of the imagination.

Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.

As long as you're going to be thinking, think big.

We examine everything in existence and we come to see that everything is transitory and temporal, that which is left over is God, is eternity, is the Self.

Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

Pumps on and them little mini skirts is up. I see some good girls, Imma turn em out.