I had an epiphany: I was a loser.

The people who listened to rock 'n' roll, I thought, were bound together against the people who didn't listen to rock 'n' roll. That, of course, didn't work at all. Your taste in rock 'n' roll does not say anything about you, morally or otherwise.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

I don't like having a teaching job - office hours and conferences and committees and bosses and all that - but I tend to enjoy teaching, and I design the course in such a way that there'll be pleasure in that.

The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.

Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans.

I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me, what lived invisibly.