The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on.

Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.

Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly...spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.- Susan Taylor--Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.

We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.