Things musicals taught me: All your problems will go away if you sing about it.

I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away.

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.

As human beings, we are always torn between individual freedom and the ability of choose our actions, and the need for at least enough social structure so that anarchy, chaos, and warlordery - or the war of all against all - can be avoided.

Women are human beings, and human beings are a very mixed lot. I've always been against the idea that women were Victorian angels, that they could do no wrong. I've always thought it was horseshit and does nobody any good. Remember, Lizzie Borden got off largely because the cultural agenda had convinced people that women were morally superior to men, so Lizzie Borden was "incapable" of taking the ax and giving her mother 40 whacks.