I am not aware of anything below my neck. I live completely in my head.

I can't get upset about 'offensive to women' or 'offensive to blacks' or 'offensive to Native Americans' or 'offensive to Jews' ... Offend! I can't get worked up about it. Offend!

I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.

That is how I came to think that heavy and hard was the beginning of living, real living; and though I might not end up with a mark on my cheek, I had no doubt that I would end up with a mark somewhere.

I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.

I wouldn't mind being labeled as "angry," if it wasn't used once again to denigrate and belittle.