The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.

There is no dangerous path for the water

When you can see God in small things, you'll see God in all things.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Delete the negative accentuate the positive!

The surveillance state has run amok. Technology that's enabled us to send selfies 24/7 - not that valuable - has also enabled us to be spied upon us 24/7.

Before you can ever inspire, motivate, or influence, you must connect first.

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

I did find out about the koalas and how eucalyptus makes them high and why they sleep all day. They're little druggies.

Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers.

Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.