Vera Stark is a fabulous force of nature.

...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.

Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.

...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.

you can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over!

When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter.

Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!

old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!

Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that.

You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.

If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

When God says He got you, you're got. And you can't be un-got.

In California, thieves have three choices: They can go to prison, Sacramento, or Washington D.C.

The death penalty makes us all murderers.

Some people go into tantra with the idea, sort of an intellectual approach, that now they can just do everything and stay high. That doesn't work at all.

Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.

I respect what I do deeply. I don't get nervous to the point of fear.

It was kind of a decompression - from straight alcohol to mixed drinks to wine to spritzers - and then you're out.

I've always looked at myself and criticized myself first, and that's the way I'm always going to be.