There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.

The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us.

It came to me…that I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through, because all I had been through was my being there. I was experiencing…a new self-acceptance, a sense that I had to be this mind and this body, its vices and its virtues, and that I had no other chance or choice.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.

It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. Innocent and used-up and proud and silly.