Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.
Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
Two eggs do not an omelette make
There are no dumb male questions. There are dumb males, but not dumb male questions.
It's nice, it gives you a feeling of security so that if something breaks we know we can always call a guy over and he'll bring a drill or something.
It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.
No stream rises higher than its source
If I can avoid the mirror when I brush my teeth in the morning, I will. I find security and safety in the most profound degree of ignorance. If you can just stay ignorant of almost everything you'll be OK. It's fine to stay informed and look at things, but to judge things will bog you down.
I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your life - the life we make together. Take me like a turtle whose shell must be cracked, whose heart is ice, who needs your heat. Love me like a warrior, sweat up to your earlobes and all your hope between your teeth. Love me so I know I am at least as important as anything you have ever wanted.
Grief is Newark. It's there. Can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not too bad and get on to Manhattan as quickly as possible.