Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.

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.

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.

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

Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.

I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the plague and he chose not to because the 'right people' were dying.