Motherhood is a dream. It really is absolutely amazing.

You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

Thus the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.

Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.

I need absolutely to be alone.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely while considering what she is to us alone.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

I love things that age well - things that don't date that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.

No sex age or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

In passing we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

It is old age rather than death that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.