“Hope is a very unruly emotion.”

We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.

A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.

Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children, parasites.

The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.

I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.

Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.

Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.

I don’t like writing. I like having written.

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.

Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.

Love in marriage is more than just a feeling or an emotion; it is a choice.

Because of the vulgar advent, I decided to give way and, by dark and cryptic sentences, tell of the causes of the future mutation of mankind; especially the most urgent ones, and the ones I perceived, and in a manner that would not upset their fragile sentiments.

A movie doesn’t have to do everything. A movie just has to do a couple of things. If it does those things well and gives you a cool night at the movies, an emotion, that’s good enough.

I don’t try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes.

What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.

It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.

It’s an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.