I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.
it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.
Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.
We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.
We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.
Power is the ability not to have to please.
Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart; The end lost in dream, They float past our view, We only watch their glad, early start. Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose; Their widening scope, Their distant employ, We never shall know. And the stream as it flows Sweeps them away, Each one is gone Ever beyond into infinite ways. We alone stay While years hurry on, The flower fared forth, though its fragrance still stays.
I had someone tell me I fell off, ooh I needed that.
Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say. . . it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.
We have rules in the house and a sticker chart for my kids to earn technology time. Maybe its because of the world I live in and work, that I don't see much of anything beneficial that comes out of social media for kids. Even though its how they communicate now, so you have to find the fine balance.