Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.

A story is how we construct our experiences.