Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you`ll discover will be wonderful. What you`ll discover is yourself.

Loneliness is everything it`s cracked up to be.

What I can`t completely understand is most other people`s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you`ll discover will be wonderful. What you`ll discover will be yourself.

We`re lucky that we don`t have anybody there just trying to collect the money. There`s plenty of money to be had and you can get the same amount by doing junk every week. By just showing up. But you also lose your soul. What`s the pleasure in losing your self-esteem, your dignity?

[from an interview in "Ms." magazine] I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don`t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone - they just don`t do it.

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

[on the popularity of "M*A*S*H" (1972)] I hear from people who watch six and seven times a day. It scares me.