Ti

“My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.”
― Erica Jong

“Anger is really disappointed hope.”
― Erica Jong

“Long before you were born a man decided that there could be a very simple test to determine if a machine was intelligent. Not only intelligent, but aware, possessed of a psychology. The test had only one question. Can a machine converse with a human with enough facility that the human could not tell that she was talking to a machine? I always thought this was cruel--the test depends entirely upon a human judge and human feelings, whether the machine feels intelligent to the observer. It privileges the observer, the human, to a crippling degree. It seeks only believably human responses. It wants perfect mimicry, not a new thing. It's a mirror in which men wish only to see themselves.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Silently and Very Fast

“Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note.
'Sorry,' said the note.
'Just not big enough.”
― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire