When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.

I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.

There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

What I discovered was is that it's rare to find a person that you feel very intimate with, and you can sleep with lots of people and not find what you're looking for.

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

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.