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.

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.

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.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

We estimate wrongdoing in proportion to the purity of our conscience

Love was like swallowing a cili padi whole.

Inspiration and genius - one and the same.

Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.

And of course, the answer came to me in the same way Jesus comes to those who drink in trailers: as an epiphany.

Try not to write the parts that people skip.

Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation?

You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure.

One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.

I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.