Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.

Is perception equivalent to existence?

... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Façade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.