The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

We are generally treated based on how much or little we have, earn, or know—or seem to have, earn, or know.

I saw [Linus Pauling] as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century’s greatest chemist. No doubt about it.

An unexpected Blessing is an answer to a Prayer said, trusting that God will get to it, no matter how long it takes.

To know oneself means above all to know what one likes

British people are surprised that I'm British!

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.

[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.