The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there".

Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.

This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.

A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers.

I became depressed and I cut my self with scissors and stuff.

We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world.

I hope women who wear my perfume will have men all over them.

You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.