To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.
This desert town was man's own miracle of pure purposelessness.
I believe only in art and failure.
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
As a writer, I must be free to say what is in all the diversity I can command. I regret the distorting prejudices that surround me, whether they affect homosexuals or men or the physically handicapped and I can't alone defeat them. They will not defeat me, either as a lesbian or a writer.
Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.