Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.

On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.

Reduce your humanity through what Jules Feiffer called little murders. The minute I hear someone trying to demean me, I know that that person means to have my life. And I will not give it to them. When a person commits these little murders, and then you catch him or her at it, he or she might say, "Oh, I didn't mean it." But make no mistake: It is an assassination attempt.

I've lived many places on the planet, and I still have friends in many places.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.