each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.

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.

Life without dreams or goals such as life without vision.

and the best, if not heedfully used, will prove the word. The better and keener the knife is, the sooner and deeper will it cut thy fingers, if thou take not heed (647).

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.

Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.

And sure, there's a universe where I made a bonehead call that blew the Super Bowl. But that's not my universe.

It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system.

The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads.

I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones.