It used to be the custom in this country that when you had made a career and were mature in judgment, you went to the Senate to give something back t the Republic. The idea that at age 25 you go out and buy a blow dryer and starting running for office is not what the founders had in mind

The word heterosexual is an adjective, the word homosexual is an adjective. They describe an activity. Of course there's a homosexual activity; of course there's a heterosexual activity. But there's no homosexual person. There's no heterosexual person. Everybody is everything.

It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.

I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging.

"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.

Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.

The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'