Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body, the possibility that the magnet that attaches us to a context in the world can lose its grip.

...(Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your mother has cooked you a few bad meals you must never eat again.

The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of women’s inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour that merely to recognize it is to risk unravelling the entire fabric of civilization.

Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.