Solitude offers a lot that being coupled or being in a group does not. It helps us learn what we are capable of.

Our society has very much limited our choices, even regarding the food we think acceptable.

The world is abundant with food for us, and with everything we need, if only we just open our eyes. There's so much food that gets thrown out or never harvested.

One important part of historical recording is to get people of another generation to understand the feelings, the passion that went into social transformation. That's why oral history is so valuable.

Ever since Freud, being alone has been considered something of a psychological failure. The point, according to Freudian theory, is to be able to love and connect. But I don't believe that at all. I think that being alone and being coupled and being in a group are all natural states in which people can thrive.

My mirror image always had to be interpreted. And for that I sought my reflection in someone else's eyes.

I don't really think myself that sex work is necessarily more demeaning than other kinds of demeaning work.