I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am full of parentheses. Revolutions can't abide parentheses.

All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter.

Being, I imagine, must be very simple. It is Becoming which is so messy and which I am all for.

Absolutes are absolutely dangerous.

Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.

You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?

I've had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation.

Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.

Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him.

good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power.

Any chance beats no chance.

As with all travel, replacing familiar surroundings with the unknown fires an electric charge that awakens a sense of adventure.

There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told and the man who will do nothing else.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

I did for the fun of it

Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking's just the measure.

We tend to look at countries in terms of failed states and functioning states, which is rather simplistic.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It's also for people who you think of as reprehensible.

With so many brothers, I could always find a pair of shorts to borrow and run around in.

Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.