It is a good thing that women are so easily manipulated. Otherwise, most of us wouldn't be here.
If you’re alive, you can’t be bored in San Francisco. If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.
I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich.
When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.
The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.
The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.
Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.
I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.
Because of an off-hand funny comment I made backstage at a concert years ago, a story circulated that the song has been a burden and even that I didnt sing it for a while. Thats completely false. I am very proud of American Pie and the many satellites that grow from it and revolve around it. For many years I carried my songs around and now they carry me around. I have always sung American Pie for my audience and would never think of disappointing them since it is they who have given me a wonderful life and untold affection for almost 30 years.
When I was a kid, for me, the '60s seemed so far away. But I was actually born in the late '60s.
We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery.