That smile could end wars and cure cancer.

Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else...But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists.

But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.

Leaving feels too good, once you leave.

Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.

No woman should ever lie about another woman. You've violated the sacred covenant between women! How will stabbing one another in the back help women to rise above patriarchal oppression?

but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.