Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.
I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
I also have intense relationships with furniture. . . probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.
You've got to be able to act when it's necessary to act. And you've got to be able to act where the threat is.
Unity is the only way in which the people of this country can overthrow the fascists, communists, capitalists, and all the other assholes who claim running a representative government is so difficult. The emphasis has been taken from the Bill of Rights and placed on the type of interpretation of the Constitution that best suits the people in power.
For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.