We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery.

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.

Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.

I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.

Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.

Success is personal ownership of the dream, and responsibility for its desired outcome.

Making the hard to decision to throw away a once favorite bra is like deleting an ex-friend that repeatedly let you down.

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.

I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that.

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while.

Chickens are cheerless birds, I advise you to keep geese which can be taught to follow like dogs, one needs all the companionship one can get in these days.

There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know?