art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

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.

Your past isn’t there to decide who you are

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

You never know how things are going to turn out.

Look, dear! How adorable. When pop music tries its very hardest, it can be almost as good as Sven Hassel.

I never expected that, 20 years later, Chucky would be considered a classic, if I may invoke that term. A golden oldie anyway, something that people still care about 20 years later.

It's essential that we do what's right - not necessarily what appears to be immediately popular.

Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.

Data is not intelligence.