You're afraid to be close to women. Because it's not masculine to be close to women. The last time you were close to a woman, you were a child.

I was rescued by librarians. It was librarians who said 'maybe you would like to read The Hardy Boys as well as Nancy Drew.' It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

One act of violence takes four generations to heal.

The idea that women don't smell fine on our own is a problem.

There's really a shortage of good freelance writers. ... There are a lot of talented people who are very erratic, so either they don't turn it in or they turn it in and it's rotten; it's amazing. Somebody who's even maybe not all that terrific but who is dependable, who will turn in a publishable piece more or less on time, can really do very well.

... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism.

I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit.