I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.
Either move or be moved.
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron. . . . I should have been able to do better.
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act in the name of the movement.
I was born just barely south of the Mason Dixon line.
The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.
The oil corporations spend a lot of money to get, say, the tar sands pipeline through, but nobody's - you know, there are definitely environmentalists being paid - but a lot of people are acting for something other than financial compensation. So if the tar sands pipeline doesn't get made, it's because a huge amount of people are doing something that doesn't involve remuneration, money, etc. , because we're not actually the self-interested financial instruments that economists like to imagine we are.