It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.

That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

I sat in the dark and thought: There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.

Once the mind is met with understanding, it can always find its way home.

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Nothing is more generally known than the duties which belong to christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practised?

The key to success is simple. Make people dream.

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

When the day comes, I remember how much I loathe flying. I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.