It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real freaks never lose their appeal.

Women who pay their own rent don't have to be nice.

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent condemns us to the equally restrictive role of sweet, meek, and weak.

My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves.

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort

Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees.