of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.

Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.

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

I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.

Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.