each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.

No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.

I'm very dependant. I fall apart regularly.

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.

I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.