I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner.

Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals.

There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.

We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it.

Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.

Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real.

Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life.

I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world.

Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.

Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess.

Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another.

Stay at peace with everyone you meet and hold no grudge with anyone for any reason.

Friends are a wonderful thing. They won't make you feel like a nothing.

Which sort of shows why my body is an idiot, because forced narcolepsy is pretty much the worst defense ever.

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

Death, only, renders hope futile.

Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive?

My life is more important. At this point in my life I'm alone. I don't think about it a lot.

I think about the sincerity of my writing. I try to be true, to pose questions. Shake people up a bit and make them look in a direction they wouldn't normally.

All those who believe in psychokinesis - raise my hand.

I guess there isn’t a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being.