We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it.

Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals.

There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.

Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.

Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real.

Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life.

I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world.

Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.

Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess.

I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner.

Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another.

Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)

Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration.

From my big beautiful warlock brain, welcome to 'Sheen's Korner' ... You're either in my corner, or you're with the trolls.

I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up.

I was honored today with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cat thrown at me

Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.

Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified.

The old shepherd was right: The only solution was to forget a part of uncertainty and create a new history for oneself.

Don’t get me wrong. Being a mom is no picnic. Raising the kids is the mother’s responsibility. It’s a thankless, solitary job, like sheriff or Pope.

We do not have, nor have had, and never will have an opinion about where the stock market, interest rates, or business activity will be a year from now.