Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.

You can say anything if enough people will listen.

I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.

I want my whole life lined with a topical anesthetic.

How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.