The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

I was anorexic in the 60s and 70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.

My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting.

I serve black tea, which I call Froggy tea. And I have green teas and all sorts of nice teas. I'm serving tea all the time.

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's.

I was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or even 14. It explained, to me at least, a lot of my behaviour over the years.

Love survives in us precisely because it isn't wise.

Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some gods would dream of.

There is always room for the man of force.

To receive the grace of God you must go to the desert and stay awhile.

Europe was founded as a community bound together by solidarity.

Colored leather is my favorite. To me, there's nothing more fun than wearing a cobalt blue leather skirt or a fuchsia leather jacket.

Take your vitamins. Don't drink vodka. Get used to empire waistlines.

Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something.

Forget every touch or sound that did not teach you how to dance

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.