The end of exile is the end of being.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

Man only likes to count his troubles

For you to be effective in your promised land, you must study the land

To be able to see one’s own faults

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don’t need him.

In my house, neither my wife nor my daughter are impressed that I'm on television, and they remind me of that frequently.

Modesty is the highest elegance

I think I've seen the first 'RoboCop' like 15 or 20 times. I'm like a kid that way.

I have a lot to learn about NASCAR. But I've learned if you have the right people in the right places doing the right things, you can be successful at whatever you do.