“There are no original ideas. There are only original people.”

“Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.”

“We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we say, reciting glories since faded or defiled, trusting her to no one else; that others should know and love her in her present fallen state (for she must fall without our vigilant love) is a species of betrayal.”

“I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tunafish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.”

“Our power lies in the depth of our compassion and in our abilities to imagine each other in ourselves.”

“Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.”

“Authority seems to be nothing other than the vanishing-point of textuality. And Nature is authority whose textual origins have been forgotten.”