Misogyny is the death of the heart.

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.

Longing is all that lasts.

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.

My thoughts and actions made me who I am.

Age does not matter in most relationships, but in marriage, it matters a lot. If you marry a younger you have to baby sit, and if you marry an older, you have to follow orders.

I remember when the first police scary video thing came out, and you thought, wow, ooh, look at this, come and look, come and look. And now it's on every channel.

From now on you must strive to cut out unnecessary movement. Waste in movement is wrong and will get you killed.

How many people out there really set a budget?

Russia is a difficult country to deal with, but I think that American policy on Russia has been foolish in the extreme.

Those who have the habit of revelation lose the habit of thought.

When you're dead, you don't breathe, you don't see, you don't feel, you don't love.

I like people who have a pulse and aren't afraid to show it.

I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.