Why marry a woman if you're going to betray her, and if you're going to betray her, why beat her? The fault is not hers ... I sometimes think the worst we do, we do behind closed doors.

I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.

Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Writers will happen in the best of families.

A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.

England is an aquarium, not a nation.