Normal is the average of deviance.

The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.

Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.

The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.

There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.