I'm like the kid in kindergarten; I really do send valentines to everyone.

I got introduced to audiobooks because of having a baby.

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation.

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.

Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to.

People who love science fiction really do love sex.

There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo.

I'm like the kid in kindergarten; I really do send valentines to everyone.

I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.

Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in.

I'm writing a new book right now that is like an erotica manifesto.

There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

You name the demonstration; I was at it.

I think moms need to share information on a regular, intimate basis.

I see the effects of sexual and gender liberation all around me, just like you do, but I don't have a sense of being in the majority.

I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me.

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

I love turning my daughter on to old movies.

My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.

It's not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead.

Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear.

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what you're going to do with it.

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

So that would be a classic mixed message to young women: you should look a certain way that's going to destroy your reproductive system and your sexual appetite, but at the same time, you should be interested in sex!

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what youre going to do with it.

Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear.

It wasn't so much of a controlled effort to end up as part of the Goth scene.

I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!

Prejudice is the glass through which most things are seen and judged.

It was an unknown thing, a lot of people had very bad trips and I like to be in control.

When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.

When I jump into something, I really do it to the fullest extent that my time and energy will allow me. I'm from Texas, and to see so many people that are obese and with disorders that are preventable. They haven't been shown or told. I'm really passionate about making sure my fellow countrymen are healthy. It's a shame.

The key word for transportation in the 21st is 'choice.'

The quality of the Neues Museum's construction is extraordinary even by German standards, and people can smell that quality. The concept would not have been so convincing without it.

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.

One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.

I'm not going to work outside of genre. It's going to be horror, action, or sci-fi. I don't ever really see myself being interested in movies outside of that.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

When life's path is steep, keep your mind even.

There have been so many great players that I've played with, that I've played against over the years.

I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.

I've been insane from a very early age.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'

A lady emailed me that her child had been diagnosed with autism and that hearing my material on the subject had helped her. To me, it just means that I'm making the right decision in talking about this.