To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.

Placing blame was easier than adding up the mounting figures of what he'd lost.

A different language is a different vision of life.

Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him.

It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing the dresses.

The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.

I don't believe that Russia's a threat for Europe. I think that's a big scam.

Some men see mountains as obstacles. Others as a canvas.

To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.