Absolutes are absolutely dangerous.

All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter.

Being, I imagine, must be very simple. It is Becoming which is so messy and which I am all for.

Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.

You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?

I've had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation.

Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.

Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him.

good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power.

Any chance beats no chance.

I cannot teach -- if I teach as teaching should be I become so exhausted I nearly die, I seem to have no middle gear.

Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongueswhen they have girls to manage

I think women athletes who have been successful need to help other sports, those sports that are just emerging. That's what I've been thinking about and looking forward to.

Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.

A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary defenders of human rights.

I just want to see a good movie. Fortunately, good movies come in all sorts of genres.

I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me.

Today is February 14th - St. Valentine's day. Women call it Love day, while men name it as Extortion day.

The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.

I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.

The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.