She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.

We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.

Courage is the only Magic worth having.

I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.

I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I understand, as a woman who probably would have been burned in the marketplace for witchcraft only about 200 years ago, that I need the First Amendment more than anybody does. And that even if I am repelled by child pornography or Bob Guccione's productions, that I have to protect those things, because essentially it's in my self-interest to do so.

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

A man assumes that a woman's refusal is just part of a game. Or, at any rate, a lot of men assume that. When a man says no, it's no. When a woman says no, it's yes, or at least maybe. There is even a joke to that effect. And little by little, women begin to believe in this view of themselves.