A line, once crossed, can never be uncrossed.

Who one believes God to be is most accurately revealed not in any credo but in the way one speaks to God when no one else is listening.

physical disability looms pretty large in one's life. But it doesn't devour one wholly. I'm not, for instance, Ms. MS, a walking, talking embodiment of a chronic incurable degenerative disease.

My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved well enough.

Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.

If the very thought of taking off all your clothes in the middle of the Washington Mall during a school holiday makes you blush, you haven't even begun to dream what it feels like to publish a book.

I will write myself into well-being.

God enters the world through those of us who are willing to let God participate fully in our lives.

The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live long enough, as you're increasingly likely to do, you may well join it.

Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.

In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.

Happiness will be fleeting if you constantly search for it in places that can be taken away. It's an inside job.

The first rule of marriage: solve the mystery, end the love.

You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'.

Well, I come down in the morning and I take up a pencil and I try to THINK.

I know I'm a champion. I know I've got it in me, they can't stop me.

He probably couldn’t turn off his sexiness without medical intervention.’ (Abbie)

The Buddha always emphased the important of good friends.

The only thing you can do through all the scrutiny and just in life in general is be true to yourself.