Love is love, but marriage is an investment.

Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.

I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.

in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.

All people believe their suffering is greater than others.

Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.

There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.