The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying..

For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make..

The days passed, as they do, and life went on..

Protecting yourself from failure is probably not a good way to live..

If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much.

Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined..

You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer..

We live in a very gynophobic society.

Not being happy really is my fear..

I fear for the democratic system. And I fear for our liberties. Only a small group of people fights for our liberties. Once we start on the slippery ….

I was never trained for anything.

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth..

Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated..

I am not a Hemingway aficionado..

There must be nothing in my daily conduct that, copied by another, could lead that one into unholiness..

It’s not what you do some of the time that counts, it’s what you do all of the time that counts..

I'm far too middle-class to morally object to a paying job..

The dream of reason produces monsters.

Nothing good comes out of depression..

Yes. I've been asked to pose nude, but I never have, and I probably never will..

So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers..