You would think as you get older your mind would fill up with what they call the spiritual side of things, but mine just seems to get more and more practical, trying to get something settled.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

For what was living with a man if it wasn't living inside his insanity?

Hugs are part of everybody life for me. Hug all sorts of people - I don't worry about it looking unmanly or whatever. I think physical human contact is one of the things that makes living worthwhile.

People say things to me like, 'It's really cool that you don't go out and get drunk all the time and go to clubs.' I appreciate that, but I'm kind of an introverted kind of person just by nature.

I made nothing happen very slowly.

While women's suffrage has not brought about the political millennium which its fondest backers predicted, its effects on the whole have been decidely beneficial.

Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work.

When you quickly get into motion, a problem becomes an opportunity for growth.

Instead of being intimidated by the limitations, be inspired to find new ways around them.

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind.

My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.