“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.

We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.

I don”t know if I like communism, and I don”t know if I like socialism. But I know that the Breakfast for Children Program feeds my kids. And if you put your hands on that Breakfast for Children Program.

Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.

Without community, there is no liberation.

The theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

I think the international community should unite to fight such inhuman phenomena as terror attacks and the murder of totally innocent people.

May our communities be oases of peace.

Weapons of war have no place in our communities.