When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.

Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.

all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.

What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's not truly shared. A human being must learn at a very young age how to connect to other human beings. Our technologies are driving us apart, only connecting us in terms of information, not in terms of emotions.

Adjectives are the curse of America.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.