To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort

To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.

Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.

The best work is a fusion of love and praise.

Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.