“Pornography is the theory, and rape is the practice.”

“She touched her fingertip to his wet face and brought away a tear. Amazed, he did the same. He tasted this river his own eyes had rained."It tastes of salt!" he exclaimed. "It tastes like the sea!"...”

“We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.”

“Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.”

“Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.”

“Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.”

“You are the silence between the notes. The white space between the letters. The missing that makes everything else a something.”

“Parenting a pre-teen is quite something.”

“Something else has happened with computers.”

“I'll leave you two alone. Morality might be contagious.”

“After all, suicide is contagious.”

“Who can tell? It may be that there must always be growth - and that if one does not grow kinder and wiser and greater, then the growth must be the other way, fostering the evil things. Or it may be...”