Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.

Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.

An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.

Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.

I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight.

every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.