We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

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.

Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames.

When you don't know what to do, go back to the places, the people and the promises where you know you last heard God.

The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.

Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.

It's so legato it's difficult to splice. Sibelius was famous for that.

The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.

I don't want to weaken the Patriot Act. I want to repeal it.

Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.

When a contestant actually loses consciousness, I think that's a good sign.

Don't let your ego get in the way of your success.