“There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.”

“To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything, et cetera et cetera.' How monotonous, how useless this becomes. What about the honors of Joan of Arc, Beauvoir, Stowe, Xena, Princess Leia, or women that would truly fight for something other than just their own emotions?”

“There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret.”

“Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.”

“The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.”

“Peace is more of an internal settlement rather than what is visible on the external.”

“If I knew what to doI'd do more than write a song for you”