Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over..

Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do..

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate..

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc..

A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born..

They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born..

Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results..

Women who pay their own rent don't have to be nice..

There are parts of Texas where a fly lives 10,000 years and a man can't die soon enough..

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on..

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes..

Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown..

Sometimes people go off in a slightly different direction of wanting to be different, of wanting to be special, of wanting to be more, and I think th….

But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie..

Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling y….

There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. Time gets strange there from too much sky, too many mi….

Sometimes all that saves me is being willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful, important, complicated, or just pla….

Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees..

Beside Mama, in my own folding chair, with my feet sticking out in front of me, I thought about my own innards. Just a few months before I'd had no i….

In the end I would always pull up with a sense of glory, that loving is the strong side. It's feeble to be an object. What's the point of being loved….

But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture..