The interesting thing about the religious component, for me, is that Jesus hardly mentions sex at all. He's pretty interested in the poor, he's pretty interested in selling your worldly goods and storing up riches in heaven. However, religious fundamentalists have made it all about sex, and that's like saying, "Look at the sex and we're just not going to talk about what you may be doing in a financial way that is sinful."

Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted.

I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive.

Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.

The farther north you go, the fewer fruits and vegetables there are. What kind of apple trees do you suggest the Inuit get their apples from? And how much oil is expended transporting such things out there? It's an equation.