It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head of her art school that she was the best painter, but that she wouldn't get the biggest prize because she would waste her talent by having children. I think we have to get honest with girls about how they can expect the world to block them, and we have to prepare girls, and ourselves, to break through those blocks.

Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.

Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes.