I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say.

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.

What is eternal is the cloud drifting slowly out of sight.

The medium is the message.

I don't really watch a lot of television, and I would watch mindless, mindless television.

Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.

Choose in ways that support your dreams.

Push me and I will. I’ll get punished, but you’ll still be dead.

Every couple weeks I'll listen to Sibelius's Seventh Symphony, just to check in, to see how it's doing. It's doing OK.

I just try to do what I'm interested in and hope that some people will connect.

At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.

I'm an easy date, as someone would say!