Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

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.

True Leaders possess good core values and will align themselves with like thinking people to grow their leadership and prosper in Integrity~bns

Ah how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it.

I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end.

A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.

To pick up a cigarette wrapper or wine label or an old letter or the end of a carton is my way of dealing with those things that do not originate in me, in my I.

There is nothing normal about a musician's lifestyle; I don't have a nine-to-five job at the post office.

What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone.