I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my grandmother used to read. They have value like Paxil has value, but there's plenty of them in the world already. There's a shortage of confronting, stimulating, exciting books.

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

How I feel is cheap and used, dirty and humiliated. Dirty and tricked and thrown away.

You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.

According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.

Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by.

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.