But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.

Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort

Women who pay their own rent don't have to be nice.

Every doorway, every intersection has a story.

I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.

Suddenly the staggering love bursts away from me like milk from a smashed glass.

What's wrong with extreme dieting and hard-core fitness plans is that they don't take into account the rest of your life.

If you know yourself, you are doomed.

Inside, I was like: "Ha, suck my spiky rubber strap-on, vampyre hunter!

You can only lead by example.

Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

Football is simple. You are in time or too late. When you are too late, you should start sooner.

I want to go to college for literature. I want to be a writer. I mean, I love what I do, but its not all I want to do-be a professional liar for the rest of my life.

There is no democracy without socialism, and no socialism without democracy.

The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.