I just find that humans are predictable and stupid and animals and nature are a lot more magical to me. I'm just interested in magic, and not the silly humans.
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
Be not over solicitous about education. It may be able to do much, but it does not do as much as expected from it. It may mould and direct the character, but it rarely alters it.
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it.
It doesn't matter what we say , so long as we all say the same thing.
That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.
For those who control the levers of power in Washington, and for the global special interests, they partner with these people that don't have your good in mind. Our [presidental] campaign represents a true existential threat like they haven't seen before.
To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.
I wear all my T-shirts from Helmut Lang with the holes in the elbows, which people always speak of. When my husband gets a hole in his sweater, at his elbow, he says, "It's very Helmut Lang!"
I was sort of caught up in my own web of illusion.