Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

A person who has experienced something is almost always far more expert on it than are the experts.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.

Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual expression.

I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out.