Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

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 you want to make your wife joyful, treat her like Holy Spirit

A man should never neglect his family for business.

If you are a lousy teacher, you should be fired.

I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.

prayer must be, in its own nature, absurd and impertinent.

Acheron. When it absolutely, positively must be destroyed overnight.

Number four, we're going to play like winners, play the game the way it's meant to be played. Don't get full of yourself if something good happens. Don't get too depressed when something bad happens.

Lead the least secretive life you can.

I don't think I ever wore anything that was like really ugly, I just didn't really care.

Things work once you have property, trade and contract in place.