As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?

Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.

Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.

Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.

People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.