Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.

That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

Winning requires a crystal clear vision, relentless passion and complete dedication with No Excuses.

Hades does not have a runny nose. I know this. The entire Greek pantheon no doubt knows this. For some reason, my nose is unaware of this basic fact of mythology.

Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

Many people [still] believe that at the time of your death, 1,000 Buddhas show up and welcome you into the paradise state.

Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.

People don't mind being challenged to do better if they know the request is coming from a caring heart

Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.

The only long-term motivation is self motivation. So hire people who are self motivated and get out of their way.

It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work, making the greatest impact, and changing the most.