I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your boyfriend or your grandma... I'm getting a little tired of 'my life story as fiction'. Please don't tell me about your little life - is there nothing larger? More important?

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

Make a difference, does it? You stay the night here snake get you.

It seems to me everything Shakespeare did was political.

I am in the position of judging people by the best they've ever done rather than the worst.