One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

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.

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.

Opinion is the death of knowledge.

The way you attract something you term special determines how you safeguard it.

History was ignorant and had a mean streak, so it tended to repeat.

Insanity is a gradual process - don't rush it.

I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents.

God always takes the simplest way.

Any nations right to a form of government and economic system of its own choosing is inalienable. Any nations attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.

Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.

It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes.

A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to.

I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.