“You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.”

“As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.”

I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.

“It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.”

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism and doubt.

“They tested it. And it tested a little more poorly than ours had, ... So they then gave it back to me with -- they said, 'Now here's some things we think you should do.'”

If you kept moving, you never had to mourn what you were leaving behind.

She was okay. There was nothing wrong with her that a vasectomy of the vocal cords would not fix.

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

“I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.”

If people really believed that rape made lesbians, and brutal fathers made dykes, wouldn’t they be more eager to do something about it?

“We wanted a feminist revolution. I wanted it like a lover. I wanted it like justice.”

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.