“The thing I love about television is that people watch you in their pajamas, and when they’re eating dinner. You’re part of the family.”

For 50 percent of Americans marriage is forever, for the rest of us there is another adventure.

If people are watching television by themselves, it makes them part of a community of people laughing.

I’d like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It’s part of the hand you’re dealt. It’s a challenge-and I’m not atypical.

The secret of living a full life is to be fully engaged, moment to moment, to have something in your life that engages you so that there’s nothing missing.

I love writing. I’ve always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.

I’m not saying that there’s anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I’m saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven’t quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.

Poetry is very crafted. You can’t have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words.

I’ve always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

Guys who might not be superstars but because of their hustle, because of the little things they do, these are the guys who can really mean the difference between winning and losing.

One thing I feel clear about is that it’s important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven’t really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won’t look back upon my forties with regret.

My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing.

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.

I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.

I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.