People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals.

I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.

Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.

Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I'm not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they're dull.

Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?

The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.

It's still easier to take a blow from outside than it is to be disgusted with myself for not taking a stand. I don't know how people can live and not fight back but apparently millions do. They must hate themselves.