You have all eternity to be cautious in when you're dead.

When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you're mentally out of your business.

The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.

I don't want to take myself too seriously. That's my lesson to myself.

The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.

I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts.

I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.

when people say you're charming you are in deep trouble.

I think a lot of people spend a lot of time talking about what they hate rather than what they love. I don't want to get trapped in that.

This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.

I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.