The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.

It's never too late to love and live again. Without love in life, nothing to lose or gain.

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India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them.

The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it.

I'm not good at just sitting around waiting for the phone to ring, hoping that the perfect role is going to turn up.

Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart.

The good may lose; the bad may win! Remember this! Because knowing this increases the chance of the good to win!

I never thought about becoming wealthy. It never crossed my mind. What really motivated me was to try to accomplish something.