Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.

Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.

Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.

All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.