I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

All true wealth is biological.

Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.

I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.

Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.