In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.
[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.
It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.