You're not too fat; you're just in the wrong country.

the only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.

A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We simultaneously possess the most primitive of brain stems and the most sophisticated of cortices. The imperatives of each coexist uneasily.

Sex is God's joke on the human race ... if we didn't have sex to make us ridiculous, She would have had to think up something else instead.

We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.

Feminism is really the right of women to be full human beings and to not be defined only by their childbearing function. Feminism is really the right of women to be human beings. That's it, yet that's so frightening to a lot of people. A full human being wants satisfying work and love. A full human being is entitled to both, and is not simply defined by only one aspect of her being.