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

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

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

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

Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.

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

Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.