When a friend leaves you, you move on. When a best friend leaves you, part of you is gone

Friends end. But family will stay when your friendship ends

Fundamentalism's strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.

Don’t see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery?

With languages, you are at home anywhere.

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

As long as the government's actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.

It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.

Be ruthless about protecting writing days....althoug h writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it.

Everything takes longer and costs more.

The worst thing in the world is to feel like people turn on the TV and say, oh god, it's that guy again. I'm trying to avoid that.