“There is nothing more liberating than having your worst fear realized.”

“When all else fails, there's always delusion.”

“It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can becom...”

“Applaud my idiocy.”

“All I ask is one thing, and Im asking this particularly of young people: please dont be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, its my least favorite quality and it doesnt lead anywhere. Nobody i...”

“Music and comedy are so linked. The rhythm of comedy is connected to the rhythm of music. Theyre both about creating tension and knowing when to let it go. Im always surprised when somebody funny i...”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”

“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”