Food is my drug of choice.

The past can be tamed and controlled.

Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.

my love of water ... is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position - I enter a fugue state - but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).

[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 most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

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