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

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

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.

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.

The international community will not accept such threats to the political process.

In the Muslim world, history is important and their knowledge of history is not always accurate but is very detailed. There is a strong historical sense in the Muslim world, a feeling for the history of Islam from the time of the Prophet until the present day.

[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.

The memory of the financial community is proverbially and distressingly short.

I’M SAD, because another young life was lost from his family, the racial divide has widened, a community is in shambles, accusations, insensitivity hurt and hatred are boiling over, and we may never know the truth about what happened that day.

The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you’re gone.

I know that there are many peaceful Muslims who do not adhere to these beliefs. But until these tenants are fully renounced…I cannot advocate any Muslim candidate for President.

I felt like I was cheating myself of those communities and cheating the audience because I wasn’t able to know them. That’s what the bikes did, without me having to put any arbitrary philosophy on what it was supposed to be. It enabled human connection.