It would help not to treat age as if it were any less of a pleasure than it was when we were six and saying, 'I'm six and a half.' You know, we could be saying, 'I'm fifty and a half' and say it with joy. Each age is different and has different discoveries and pleasures.

Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.

Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change.

Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can do.

The problem is, for men and women, the idea that sexuality is about dominance and submission, when, in fact, cooperation is a lot more fun, to put it my way. So some of it, a lot of it, is just about empathy.

I think we're all enmeshed in this political system that is devoted to controlling reproduction. You didn't invent it; I didn't invent it. Thirty percent of us are trying to preserve it, and 70 percent are trying to change it. We're not active enough or voting enough or mad enough.