Today, together, let us repeat as our slogan that all trace of violence must disappear from this earth, then the sun will be honey-colored and music good to hear.

Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.

... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.

The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible

The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes and reveals them as classes.

The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.

Remember. Or, failing that, invent.

I feel a near passion for intelligence at grips with itself and not letting go.

It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.

there is no 'feminine writing' ... and one makes a mistake is using and giving currency to this expression.

What is ordinary to you maybe a desert of woeful newness to another.

The face of a golden retriever feels like home.

If you've got love you've got life, if you can love you can live.

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself.

I like happy things, I'm really calm and peaceful. I like birds, bees, I like people. I like funny things that make me happy and gleeful... like when my teacher sucked my wee-wee in pre-school!

If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby.

The language of religion can alone suit every situation and every mode of feeling.

Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs—all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured

Love, it seems to me, is that condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.