It's such a cold night and it's the only time I've actively been grateful for menopause. I've been entirely comfortable.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

Is what I did really so much worse than what anybody else does?Is it really so much worse than what you do?Think about it.

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

Humanity happy, I get benefit. Humanity in state of trouble, or violence, I cannot escape from that.

Survival is not so much about the body, but rather it is about the triumph of the human spirit.

This would be a grand land if only every Irishman would kill a negro, and be hanged for it.

I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot.

Complexity - limits competition.

Most people still steal music.

My brothers used to beat me up, but I used to fight my sisters 'cuz I couldn't hit them back, so I had to find specific severe ways to punish them.