“Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.”

“Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works.”

“Growth is betrayal.”

“Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.”

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

“Archie Henderson has won no awards, written no books and never played any representative sport. He was an under-11 tournament-winning tennis player as a boy, but left the game when he discovered ru...”

“Nothing ever really ends. Thats the horrible part of being in the short-story businessyou have to be a real expert on ends. Nothing in real life ends. Millicent at last understands. Nobody ever und...”

“The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.”

“What's the point of obsessing over cholesterol or bike helmets or even cigarettes when the biggest threats to our children are being released back into society every day? Yes, maybe 'some' of them ...”

“greater sexual freedom expands the grey area between consensual sex and rape”