I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.

Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.

Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said.

I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.

Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

I don't think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am. I don't think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star