if we begin on the men, there is no stopping. We must love them when we can.

Consumerism is our national religion.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

Longing is all that lasts.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

Riches are not only measure with monetary value.

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

There's always going to be a place for YouTube.

Just as a man working with his tools should know its limitations, a man working with his cognitive apparatus must know its limitations.

And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start.

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

You can't help whom you love, Lady. Nor can you know what it's liable to cause you to do.

Work with people who I feel like I'm on the same page with, there's no amount of money in the world that compares to that.

Life's too short to bullshit.

I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.