People who are genuinely involved in life, not just living a routine they've contrived to protect them from disaster, always seem to have more demanded of them than they can easily take on.

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.

That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

I'm drawn to roles that people don't think I'm right for.

I am an eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, I am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see

When you have grown accustomed to sitting and meditating, try to stop your thoughts. That's the bottom line in meditative practice.

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

I was raised playing music in coffeehouses and I feel that was the foundation for my career. I think it is important that we remember where we came from.

If you tell a lie, tell a big one.

Any employer is going to look at your social media before they hire you. Why aren't we doing that when we screen people coming into the United States?

Fervent prayer keeps your true identity in focus.

The road to success is not a path you find, but a trail you blaze.

I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency.