The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.

For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.

If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least as many as those who self-identify as Republicans.

I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.

I think I've wasted some of my time, but used most of it well, and have realized that my life is not separate from other people's lives or from the universe. I think our moments of happiness really come from a feeling of unity.

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.