Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our debasement?

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

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 just love the smell of an old book store and the feel of the crisp pages along my fingertips.

I think of Steely Dan as being of its time, and it may be inseparable from its time.

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.

The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action.

Chimpanzees can be quite political.

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.

The media have, indeed, provided the Devil with perhaps the greatest opportunity accorded him since Adam and Eve were turned out of the Garden of Eden.

Look, not embracing the 'Today' show is soooo yesterday.

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.