Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Defiance through compliance.

Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.

The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

It is a full-time job to cope with alien elements from both interpersonal sources and societal influences.

I don't fear death, I fear I haven't done enough before it happens

We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.

If you fight you won't always win. But if you don't fight you will always lose

Im not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.

Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.

And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain.

Those they praise, but they read the others.

I'm a combination of Linda Ronstadt, Loretta Lynn and Ralph Stanley.

Don’t waste talent. No matter what you do, don’t waste talent.