Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.

I refuse to have a life partner who spends his days pretending to be on a BBC show.

Bear your pain or it will come back

That's the value of the artist... Even when they aren't aware, they're dreaming our dreams for us.

A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are willing to leave its inner mental processes alone.

The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.

Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.

In our culture, the Oedipal drama succeeds in making us assume either a male or female sexual position. Certainly this is an ancient construct that's rapidly coming apart.

Most senators are just going to work and trying to do a job.

I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that.

What about King Tut’s tomb?” I protested. “That boy king?” Zia rolled her eyes. “Boring. You should see some of the good tombs.

The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom.