A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

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.

Anna, " he said, dragging his frosted fingers through my hair."Don't you know what it means when a boy pulls your hair at your birthday party?" "No." Just, then, i didn't know what anything meant.

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

The only human disease is amnesia.

Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.

I do believe that great love brings with it the terror and possibility of great loss.

There's nothing in all the world as much fun as talk. When you're talking, that is, with the right person.

I mean, I think I'm doing a lot better than other people that have had shoulder surgery in their careers. Some people have never come back.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble.

That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.