When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility.

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.

I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.

At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

The essential thing is to run period!And to do it for a long time and consistently and then everything will take care of itself.

Negative relationships are unpleasant but predictable.

There is no innocent sleep so innocent as sleep shared between a woman and a child, the little breath hurrying beside the longer, as a child's foot runs.

I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.

[Airmail was] an impractical sort of fad, and had no place in the serious job of postal transportation.

What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return

Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!