Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.

what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.