Longing is all that lasts.

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.

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.

Opinion is the death of knowledge.

I have come to realize that in life and politics, there is always more to take into consideration.

As if I hadn't spent a lifetime pretending to forget.

I became a Christian before I got sober. So I was a drunk, bulimic Christian.

I got to work with Jennifer Tilly, she was amazing. Such, such a smart actress.

I still want to play music but I don't want to look like Donald Duck while I'm doing it.

What doubts, what hypotheses, what labyrinths of amusement, what fields of disputation, what an ocean of false learning, may be avoided by that single notion of immaterialism!

Nothing whatsoever is worth the cost of a contracted heart.

In my mind, I'm writing for everybody.

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.

Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject.