Recognizing a problem doesn't always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state.

There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and to perform

A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.

A devotion to humanity is... too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty.

Women manage, quite brilliantly, on the whole, and to stunning and unforeseeable effect, to survive and surmount being defined by others. They dismiss the definition, however dangerous or wounding it may be-- or even, sometimes, find a way to utilize it.