What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong.

I was so horny in school it felt like my body was filled with electricity. I felt like I had neon bones or something.

I have abandoned so many projects but in the '80s when I left public life to be married and have real children - I love my children and I would never sacrifice them for anything - I had to find a way to simultaneously be a mother and wife and fulfill my duties and still be true to myself as a writer.

My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.

I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realize that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive ... the time to flower is now.

Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.

I like photographing dresses in windows. I actually wore a lot of dresses in the '70s. I like them on other people now.