Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.

Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.

I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !

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

You can't be creative and still be a good girl.

Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.

fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.