It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.

The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000.

He stroked her back and kept a fierce grip on her like she’d fade away into one of the thousands of ghosts in this cemetery.

I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

What intrigues me is the difference in how women experience power, and how men do.

I'm totally within the music. I'M LOST.

I'm looking for men who can give me security.

Let's die of it before we're too old.

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

I have always been edified by Hebrew prayers.

She fitted into my biggest arm-chair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing arm-chairs tight about the hips that season

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.