Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples. The world all in couples, each couple in its own little house, watching its own little interests and stewing in its own little privacy - it's the most repulsive thing in the world. One's got to get rid of the exclusiveness of married love.

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.

Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.

I certainly identify myself as a feminist.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way your writing has been used.

[On marriage:] It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings.