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.

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.

...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.

If art's a seismographic project, when that project meets with failure, failure must become the subject too.

A definite recipe for success is when you take persistent action on a strong definite goal.

If you would be a reader read if a writer write.

To complain now would be kind of sad. I like the way things are going.

Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world

I want to be a machine.

The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now.

Even if you're a guy and you don't believe in dancing, you should try dance cardio. It's really fun!

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

Yeah, I think of what I do as a work of journalism. It's more like the op-ed page, though. These are my opinions. My point of view. The opinions are mine and I let you make up your own mind.

The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology.