I believe only in art and failure.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

And there it is: Even though we’re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.

In order for someone to be 100% content, they must first believe it to be so.

Love is like a climbing rope. There are little knots along the way, but if you learn off of them, you can get higher than you ever expected.

The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's.

I can think of a lot of women clients of mine who are well into their 50s or 60s who are still quintessentially very elegant.

Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.

I did drop out of school.

Emmitt Smith is someone that I have great respect for - as a player, a competitor and a person. His contributions to the organization and the NFL speak for themselves.

While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.

O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.