Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!

I have ne'er been in a chamber with a lawyer when I did not wish either to scream with desperation or else fall into the deepest of sleeps, e'en when the matter concern'd my own future most profoundly.

I hope we don't have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion. The parity of women's health. It's very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.

I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women's issues" and learn that they are everyone's issues - essential to survival on planet Earth.