The kinds of good friends I have are people who are perfectly willing to have me say I'll see them in six months, and live right next door.

I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God.

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.

Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.