We must acknowledge that bearing and raising children is not some pesky, peripheral activity that we engage in, but the whole point.

Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.

...boredom is all about perception. It's a self-diagnosis, plain and simple. If you don't realize you're bored, you're not.

Cities have personalities, just as people do, and that finding the right place to live is akin to finding the right partner to live with.

Motivation begins with discomfort- with needs that are unfulfilled.

Respondents had been so overwhelmed by their in-box they'd declared "e-mail bankruptcy.

The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience.

Women shouldn't be in combat, " said Vorkosigan, grimly glum. "Neither should men, in my opinion.

If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.

I know one day I'll be considered too old.

For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

The New York gallery scene being as incredibly overpopulated and overmoneyed as it is, deep conflicts and contradictions aren't hard to find.

Just because you are getting younger doesn't mean you are getting better

If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.

The educated can listen impassively to almost anything.

I think if you don't love people and aren't fascinated by them, you'll never succeed as a portrait photographer, because your pictures will look cold.

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.