We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.

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.

The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.

The air is cold and dusk has descended. In the distance lightning flickers and a far away rumble of thunder awakens my thoughts and makes me remember.

What is realized in the novel is the process of coming to know one's own language as it is perceived in someone else's language, coming to know one's own belief system in someone else's system.

I love Prince, thought he was super dope.

I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.

How sad that we can now go up in aeroplanes and see that there are no gods upon the clouds.

I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.

Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.

There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.

Believe! An old Latin proverb reads: "Believe that you have it and you have it."