On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.

Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.

I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you have tried to say, or tried to do, or everything you are.

Euripides "questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men.

Some folks call her a runaway. A failure in the race. But she knows where her ticket takes her. She will find her place in the sun

Backstage was chaos distilled into a very small space.

All I am I owe to my mother.

I was once stranded on a broken-down boat in shark-infested waters in the middle of the Indian Ocean for five days before we were rescued while doing a 'Vogue' shoot.

Knowledge of death is the beginning of wisdom.

In all the years I've been a therapist, I've yet to meet one girl who likes her body.

Music is about the only thing left that people don't fight over.

But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.