Life in New York is a constant struggle to die of natural causes.

There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.

Indulgences should never be hesitant.

The trouble with hope is that it only pays off when there's some sense in back of it.

So few women have any clear idea of the power their ordinary beauty holds over so many of us men.

It's only the dead who'll tell you the truth.

Things you plan in life usually turn out to be meaningless, things you accumulate without knowing it become your real treasure.

The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union

There is no excuse for failure when you gave up

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

There are so many symptoms of this disease it's hard to know where to start to catalogue them, but just look at the effects on hydrology - on the way water moves around the planet.

We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.

Happiness is the natural state of our being

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.

God is all that is. Since everything that exists is God, in one form or another, the only way that God can make a tree is by becoming the tree. Likewise, the way God made you was by becoming you.