Pam wasn't what Gloria would have called a friend, just someone she had known for so long that she had given up trying to get rid of her.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

The past is what you take with you.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

Words represent your emotional state, beware of what you speak! Restore your mental balance.

- Mr. Berg, Are you an Afrikaner?- Yes-And are you proud of it?-I am not ashamed of it, but I am not proud of it, for in fact I had nothing to do with it.

The more degrees of freedom there are in practice, the wider the discussion and debate can be.

The most stupid religion is Islam.

I never said most of the things I said.

I can't stand by and allow tens of thousands of innocent people to be slaughtered for lies.

The practice of mindfulness is monitoring your mind all day and all night. It's enjoyable to just remove things that make you unhappy from your mind, to clarify your emotions.

I'm very interested in animal behavior, and the relationship of human beings to other animal behavior.

Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.

I think the cybernetic matrix is a tremendous tool for feminizing, and radicalizing, and psychedelicizing the social matrix. I see computers as entirely feminine.