Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.

Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors.

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.

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

Nothing is unnatural - just untried.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.