I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

These days everyone was insisting on their identity, coming out as a man, woman, gay, black, Jew - brandishing whichever features they could claim, as if without a tag they wouldn’t be human.

Why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live. … Why can’t they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?

Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.