At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.

Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

Charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.

The mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors.

The more fantastic an ideology or theology the more fanatic its adherents.

Anytime Facebook wants to change how it might use all that data about you, in any way, across any service it has within the Facebook ecosystem, all it has to do is change one privacy policy, tell you about it, and that's that.

What I do is create images, period.

Patchouli has always been a part of my fragrance, like a line through my life.

The home funeral - caring for the dead ourselves - changes our relationship to grieving. If you have been married to someone for 50 years, why would you let someone take them away the moment they die?

I didn't kill anyone that didn't deserve killing in the first place.

People assume that because you are on TV you must be a millionaire, but unfortunately it doesn't work like that.

I've always lived my gymnastics career with a lot of passion and a lot of purpose.

While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its breed, it seems to simultaneously relinquish its basic dogginess, until it is less a dog than a Pomeranian, Collie or Bloodhound.

I feel like he inherited one of the worst economies than any president has ever, ever inherited. I have met Mr. Obama, President Obama. I supported him in his first campaign, and I feel that he deserves four more years to finish up the job that he started.

I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements, and my senior year was really a gut year. And I said, 'Law school will always be there.' I was in no hurry to get right into that.

How can you ever be late for anything in London They have a huge clock right in the middle of the town.

It's a small world. No matter what the circumstances, be nice to everyone, as you never know who you're going to see again.

They say I spend too much money, so they take it and put it away for me. What do I spend it on? Oh, old records and presents and things.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.

I think no actor should be ever satisfied because there is always something new to do, something fresh to get challenged by.

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.