it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

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.

Tears only dry up as a result of hardness of the heart, and the hearts only harden as a result of frequent sinning.

…Do not discount the value of luck. It is a hidden and unseen attribute in a man that will save him when nothing else can— learn to embrace it.

Let her know that her look really works for you.

In dividing the light, things are seen. And we notice ourselves.

Oats n.s. A grain which in England is generally given to horses but in Scotland supports the people.

I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.

There's about 260 rooms in the new castle which you go through, but it's all about the game play.

I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.

I've always been about less government.

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.