I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes perhaps because although I couldn't sew I could think.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

What is the basic difference between saying 'I know that God exists' and saying 'I know that love exists'?

People said that I was crazy, but I wasn't.I was just different.

I made a noise of disgust, and I think I would have stormed out if I knew how to open the door.

Real power has to do with one's ability to influence the hearts and minds of others.

The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law what has already become the custom of the people.

It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.

History repeats herself.

I like repetition, but I really, really like variations, synchronistic things that happen where you're not really thinking about them.

The evidence for man-made global warming is as final as the evidence of Auschwitz.

Reading begets reading.