Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.

Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.

Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.

Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.

Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?