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

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’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.

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.

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.

Patriotism is not dying for one’s country, it is living for one’s country. And for humanity. Perhaps that is not as romantic, but it’s better.

There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.

Tension is a prerequisite for creative living.

The happiness of every living thing is what we want.

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage and they must even change their name.

There is division with people in our lives, as well as political division and religious division.

Happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living.

To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.