This Desert Town Was Man's Own Miracle

Casino Owners Spoke More Loudly Than Any Of The Other Kings Of Industry To Defend Their Contribution To Society. They Could Speak More Loudly Because Theirs Was The Purest Activity Of Civilized Man. They Had Transcended The Need For A Product. They Could Maintain And Advance Life With Machines That Made Nothing But Money.

As A Writer, I Must Be Free To Say What Is In All The Diversity I Can Command. I Regret The Distorting Prejudices That Surround Me, Whether They Affect Homosexuals Or Men Or The Physically Handicapped And I Can't Alone Defeat Them. They Will Not Defeat Me, Either As A Lesbian Or A Writer.

Every Artist Seems To Me To Have The Job Of Bearing Witness To The World We Live In. To Some Extent I Think Of All Of Us As Artists, Because We Have Voices And We Are Each Of Us Unique.

Morality, Like Language, Is An Invented Structure For Conserving And Communicating Order. And Morality Is Learned, Like Language, By Mimicking And Remembering.

The Kinds Of Good Friends I Have Are People Who Are Perfectly Willing To Have Me Say I'll See Them In Six Months, And Live Right Next Door.