If men stopped making fools of themselves in front of women, I'm 80% sure the planet would cease to spin on its axis.

We should all have personal hot air balloons and drift serenely through the clouds.

Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.

You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.

A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.

I am the only real truth I know.

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.

Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

You have Obama that wants to play golf instead of deal with people.

I have a little brother. He's actually living at my house right now. He's going to be 18.

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either.

I was thinking too fast. It seems like a person has the tendency to get bored, because he always wants to try to do all these accomplishments.

For Filipino Americans, it's a battle for recognition, for identity in a culture where, for the mainstream, Asians tend to fade into a monochromatic racialized 'other.'

I've never had a teenage rebellion, I'm not that type of person. I always work out my problems in a conscientious way.

When I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high tide of the new Republican Congress.

Communication is the most important single activity of man.

Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.