Eat without the TV going on. Learn to appreciate food with only the entertainment of conversation-yours and someone else's.

The god that you dispense with today, will come back as a demon tomorrow.

Falling in love with another man is like falling into a vast vat of yourself. For some men this is ultimately nourishing, for others . . . it is drowning.

Wanting someone so much that his very presence takes your breath away is one of the most thrilling happenings in life. Not getting him in no way diminishes this.

Learn to detest things that do not allow you to be yourself, and embrace things that make that self larger, more thrilling, and voluptuous.

Still water does not only run deep. It runs dangerously.

Try to dwell on the people you'd like to love, instead of all the people you do loathe.

There are two things in life that money cannot buy: health and happiness. Aside from that, it does an excellent job.

There are certain restaurants where you should photograph the food rather than eat it. These are great places to bring a narcissistic boyfriend before you break up.

Learn the absolute pleasure of kindness.

I prefer the "tackiest" person in the world to the stylish person who has no tact.

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

Let me not fear pain

I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker.

As you see, it is not that I don't know my own mind, I know it very well but only up to a certain point in the matter. I know perfectly well what the question is. It's the answer I want.

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It is time to start thinking.

You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite wake up. Enlightenment is waking up.

The Negro was invented in America.

It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice.