In life, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end.

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

We're tortured, a lot of us, believe me.

I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's fear that accounts for racism, it's fear that accounts for sexism, for xenophobia.

Testosterone does not have to be toxic.

Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.

That is supposed to be the rallying cry of women in the age of AIDS: no condom, no sex. But the dirty little secret is that the rallying cry is a whisper.... The great unspoken on the heterosexual AIDS front has been how behavior is still determined by the old psychosexual minuet of the sexes, the lack of responsibility in young men and of assertiveness in young women.