We in middle age require adventure.

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.

That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

I'm Grateful to say I'm Grateful

Minds have their own weather systems. You are in a hurricane. Hurricanes run out of energy eventually. Hold on.

From one moment to another memory steps back to rediscover the past

There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see!

One essential ingredient for being an original in the day of copies is courageous vision.

The truth is out there somewhere, but the dog needs to be walked.

The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.

At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers.

Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.

The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's.