Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive.

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.

When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world.

Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership . . . these are scientific values we can point to.

Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.