There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

Astrology's a moving system that depends on where you're looking at it from on Earth. My horoscope here in London would be completely different to down in New Zealand.

Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here...

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all of the important female directors from Mexico. There were four. That was it.

Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not...

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?

A cup to the dead already - Hurrah for the next that dies.

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to explain to you that I don't belong to English though I belong nowhere else.

What people value in their books - and thus what they count as literature - really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!

"The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw - taking ceremony?" "Tell me." "Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say."

Well, of course, he had said, it is known that the English kill their lambs twice: once when they slaughter them and a second time when they cook them.

Over the past thirty years we have thrown all this away.

I found myself wondering how the Empire had the technology to make long-distance holographic phone calls between planets light-years apart, and yet no one had figured out how to make a...

Your Paris is more dangerous than my savage jungles, Paul, concluded Tarzan

For many thousands of years people had looked at expensive heads of hair and thought of how much food and warmth they represented, so obviously it was a thought of no use at all, so why bother to have...

I remember when the standard farewell when I set off on another trip was Bon voyage! But today, Americans tend to say, Have a safe trip. When I hear this, I'm inclined to say, Well, you have a safe...

Even the Dreamers, lost in their great reverie, feel it, for it's Billie they reach for in sadness, and Isley they hum in love, and Dre they yell in revelry, and Aretha the last sound they hear before...

The next summer we went to France for six weeks, and I added another 420 words, most of them found in the popular gossip magazine, 'Voici'. Man-eater, I'd say. Gold digger, roustabout, louse. Who are...

You know what else is hot?" said a nameless blonde as she put her arm around the one black girl. "What?" "Bisexuals." "Totally. Well, not like real bisexuals who are just sort of your everyday people,...

You cannot say to the sun, or to the rain, To a man, geisha can only be half a wife. We are the wives of nightfall. And yet, to learn kindness after so much unkindness, to understand that a little...