The only way I can possibly heat my so-called mind up to working temperature is to imagine I'm talking to someone I admire.

All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter.

Being, I imagine, must be very simple. It is Becoming which is so messy and which I am all for.

Absolutes are absolutely dangerous.

Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.

You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?

I've had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation.

Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.

Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him.

good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power.

Any chance beats no chance.

fight for what you believe in, for if you don't you will be forever fighting against yourself.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

As Spinoza or someone very much like him once said . . .

What we are not changing, we are choosing.

Love happens when we pay attention

I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with fears of the unknown and the unknowable to poison all their joy in life.

Words are like harpoons. Once they go in, they are very hard to pull out.

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe.

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.