If women have failed to make “universal” art because we’re trapped within the “personal, ” why not universalize the “personal” and make it the subject of our art?

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.

This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it.

If there's anything worse in this world than a bad batch of babi guling, it's hindsight.

I can see that you [Bruce Cole] are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.

Can't trust a fascist--truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state

I have a love-hate relationship with Facebook. It enables me to talk to readers from all over the world, but it also makes it far too easy to waste huge amounts of time.

You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows are responding to the attention you pay them.

You never have to question something that's real.

If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.

In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).