- I'll Be Waiting for You When the Swimming Pool is Empty.
- Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.
- I've had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation
- Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death.
- You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?
- All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter.
- Absolutes are absolutely dangerous.
- Evil is the voltage of good; the urge to goodness, without the potential of evil, is trivial.
- Certainly my inner world will never be a peaceful place of bloom; it will have some peace, and occasional riots of bloom, but always a little fight going on too. There is no way I can be peacefully happy in this society and in this skin. I am committed to Uneasy Street. I like it; it is my idea that this street leads to the future, and that I am being true to a way of life which is not here yet, but is more real than what is here.
- Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him.
- I cannot teach -- if I teach as teaching should be I become so exhausted I nearly die, I seem to have no middle gear
- Good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power
- You know, exams are like war -- the birth rate of ideas goes up. Anything to keep from this dismal regimen, says poor mind, and hopefully tosses up another distraction
- The only way I can possibly heat my so-called mind up to working temperature is to imagine I'm talking to someone I admire
- I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am full of parentheses. Revolutions can't abide parentheses
- So the wave of Life mounts under the lash of Death, grows, gathers force in unbounded diversity. Ever-perishing, ever-resurgent, it foams to higher, more complex victories upon the avalanche of its corpses. As a wave swells, it surges, swarming, striving ever more strongly, achieving ever more intricate strategies of evasion, flinging itself in wilder trajectories to escape its pain.
- Ahead lies only the irreversible long decline. For the first time we know there is nothing beyond ourselves
- [Depression is] like combating the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse with a handful of popcorn. But that handful of popcorn keeps you going. There is no sense in going on, there is no sense in any of those things, but thank God one does not live by reason alone
- Go home and make babies while you still can.
- The second there's a War we'll be right back down to what we always were: Property.
- My Lai...
- The Women Men Don't See.
- It's an overreaction, my dear. History goes by swings. People overreact and pass harsh unrealistic laws which attempt to stamp out an essential social process. When this happens, the people who understand have to carry on as best they can until the pendulum swings back.
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