I thought he had been shot.
How could I go on my travels without that sweet soul waiting at home for my letters?
[Margaret] Thatcher had just become prime minister; there was talk about whether it was an advance to have a woman prime minister if it was someone with policies like hers: She may be a woman but she isn't a sister, she may be a sister but she isn't a comrade.
People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?
What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.
You make beauty and it disappears, I love that.
You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.
I've always been a caretaker; I think a lot of women are. We take care of everybody else first, and very rarely do we think about ourselves.
My biggest disappointment was, of course, the coup attempts,. . . The economy was proceeding very well, but in 1989 we had the most serious coup attempt and. . . many of the investors who were set to come here had to tell me that they chose to go to other countries because of the uncertainty brought about by (the coup attempt. ) If that had not happened, I'm sure our economy would just be booming today.
Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders.
I was very pleased to get a Supreme Court justice suggesting a column, so I went and did a column about Beano. I went with my wife and another guy to a Mexican restaurant, which we thought would be the ultimate test for an antiflatulance product. There's a reason most of Mexico is located out of doors. And it worked. Several newspapers refused to run that column. But they did run advertisements for Beano.