Anyone who feels to much or radiates extremity gets very lonely.

I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructiv e but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world.

Why do people think that we’re degraded when we’re examining positions of degradation, or examining the cycle of our own degradation?

Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our debasement?

Nothing's ever entirely new. It's more a matter of what gets picked up from the past at each time.

It's going to be crazy. All eight teams here are good teams. Hopefully the atmosphere will be great because it's going to be great basketball.

Stalinism - or communism - is the only ideology Americans know how to demonise... no one knows what it is, it's just a synonym for the Empire of Evil.

...to understand infatuation, how the loved person can become a holding pattern for all the tattered ends of memory, experience and thought you've ever had.

No woman is an island-ess. We fall in love in hope of anchoring ourselves to someone else, to keep from falling.

We suicide ourselves for our own survival. Is there any hope of dipping back into the past and circling round it like you can in art?

When the form's in place, everything within it can be pure feeling.

Violence is not only impractical but immoral.

That boy shakes me upside down and inside out.

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.

But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.

Obviously, I think it was an aberration, but it is a reality. We're still a team that won nine games, but this one was a real shock.

A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.

What doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar.

You can't work on everything all the time, so start where you are.

I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.