Sex just as a drive, as a hormonal drive, is not very interesting.

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.

it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not yet exist, they must also create their audience. Sometimes the audience is not yet ready. Sometimes it has yet to be born.

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

You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your being loved or not being loved is really a function of the people you encounter and not of yourself. That is an immensely liberating insight.

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

Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.