Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

Oh, I'm not just going too far, I've arrived.

If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.

when you are old and realize that time is running out, you start imagining that you have the cure for all the ills of the world in your hand, and get frustrated because no one pays you any attention.