The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.

I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I understand, as a woman who probably would have been burned in the marketplace for witchcraft only about 200 years ago, that I need the First Amendment more than anybody does. And that even if I am repelled by child pornography or Bob Guccione's productions, that I have to protect those things, because essentially it's in my self-interest to do so.

I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.

As a seasoned insomniac, I knew sometimes the way to beat sleeplessness was to outwit it: to pretend you didn't care about sleeping. Then sometimes sleep became piqued, like a rejected lover, and crept up to try to seduce you.

Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.