Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.

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.

To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote ‘King Lear.

I've learned the maximum from my failures.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

The relationship between a client must be 'we.'

Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.

Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity.

I believe education is the great equalizer.

Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing.

I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself.

Love does not judge. Love promotes personal growth.