People who are genuinely involved in life, not just living a routine they've contrived to protect them from disaster, always seem to have more demanded of them than they can easily take on.

Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.

Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose their places without regard to propriety or custom.