I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.

Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.

Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.

Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.

Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.

Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet?

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.

I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one lived next door. We thought they were kind of a minority.

Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick, Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my furyDo I take part.

Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.

Raising a child whether yours or not, is being anointed by God to be the guardian of his Kingdom in a form of a child.

Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.

It's just exciting to be part of something that is brand-new.

After putting out quite a few albums, there's a feeling of why make another? I was trying to make something that was an album experience.

I have a Twitter, but I'm not a tweeter... if that really makes sense.

I'll certainly be praying for Hillary Clinton, too.

Let Silence speak to you about the secrets of the universe.

This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.