A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

Spiritualism exits only for individuals. Reason is born when two men interact

The moment you begin your journey, the whole universe begins to enjoy your song.

Ambition is not everything.""No. Not everything, but it's something. Something important, if you ask me.

The needs of the times will teach you what to do.

I don't want terror in America.

Ted said, "You're working for the Order now." "Yes." "How does it feel?" "Well, Doctor, it feels rather sore and tingly.

There are no races. Only lotteries.

When you bring an idea that has no merit to me, and you ask me to comment on it, I'm going to tell you it has no merit.

I don't rock chains our ancestors did it for us

What I always try to do is make the political personal.