Why do people think that we’re degraded when we’re examining positions of degradation, or examining the cycle of our own degradation?

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 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.

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.

...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.

I have been through the OSHA system twice and I can confirm that I did not have the right to a safe workplace or whistle-blower protection on either occasion.

The future is always beginning now.

It's very important to stretch, because while it's good to look pumped, a lot of the moves are split legs, and twisting fast. So you really, really have to stay supple.

The best stories infuse wonder.

I ain't afraid to love a man. I ain't afraid to shoot him either.

It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.

Donald Trump is not a serious kind of candidate. We need someone that thinks this through. That can lead our country to safety and security.

I invited myself. Thought this table needed some class.

No one knows enough to worry.

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.