Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

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.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves or on whom she simply depends is want of courage.

I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.

I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.

One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.

You might recognize me, I'm the fourth guy from the left on the evolutionary chart.

To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice. It is never a question of who is right but what is right.

Worst thing about Al Smith dinner : it was another reminder of how far we are from the amity between opposing sides that is needed for effective governance.

Yesterday is rarely too early but tomorrow is frequently too late.

I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away.