Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart.

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

World peace, true love, and happily-ever-afters amount to wasted wishes, failed endeavors, and most precious dreams.

Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.

What you do not sow, cannot grow.

I think that there's some confusion in my own mind about what I believe.

One of the most important thing in families, both for children and spouses, is never to close off possibilities - particularly never to make demands or threats.

Diverse audiences can be just as misled as homogenous audiences.

If you're going through hell, don't stop, keep moving!

I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.

When I'm not writing music, I'm playing guitar, or reading philosophy. So all I have left is just an hour or two for Claudia Schiffer.

Music is not material. Music is Spiritual.