One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

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.

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

I keep wondering if everybody on the political left had someone who they were separated at birth from.

Rock 'n' roll but I also like sporting events a lot. I love Mike Piazza.

One of the reasons for putting yourself on the line, is that life is not simply treading water... I always felt that once you reach a certain point, you have to try and move ahead.

The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

A treasure of memories is a very special happiness.

You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.

I'm terrified to ride a bike in a city - and I grew up riding bikes in the city. I've just heard enough stories - I have enough friends who've been hit by taxicabs and things.

Unfortunately we just toured the East and West coasts so we didn't run into any rednecks.