if you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.

All politicians are not the same. I've never felt that way. What is the same is that voters get very excited about new faces, like Clinton and Blair - and they have unrealistic expectations that the world will change overnight. A cynical old hand like myself knows that it won't.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

A story is how we construct our experiences.

I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.