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

Self-esteem does not mean feeling good all the time. Self-esteem means loving yourself even when you feel badly...even when you make a mistake. It me….

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

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.

When you're connected to a source and to each other through conversation, through making love, through meditation, playing games with your kids, all ….

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

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The firs….

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

Take your work seriously, but never yourself..

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..

Nothing good comes out of depression..

What I point out to you is only that you shouldn't allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when you need to, without further hesitation or dou….

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..