They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.

I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.