Subject of Towels

"I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor. She told me, “There’s no masturbation in the DC Universe.” To which my reaction was, “Well that explains a lot about the DC Universe."

"Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."

"You’re still going to get criticized, so you might as well do whatever the fuck you want."

"…the worst thing you can ever do in your life is set yourself goals. I think goal orientation is absolutely disastrous in life. Two things happen: one — you don’t meet your goals, you call yourself a failure. Secondly — you meet your goal, you go: “Well, I’m here, and now what? I’m not happy. I’ve got this car, this job, I’m living in this address, which I always thought the place I wanted to be, and… what?” Because you’re going for something outside yourself, and that’s no good. My favorite quotation almost (or at least for the moment) is from Noel Coward who’s very great actor, producer, writer, musician, he is all around, he is known as the Master by everyone who knew, because he is so good in everything and he said: “Work is more fun than fun.” And if I have known that real joy in life is work, and if you can say of the work you do that it’s more fun than fun, then you’re in the right place."

"You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear."

"I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me."

"Indeed, this is why women have so many clothes! We need an all-purpose black skirt that does old fashioned, another one to do proper, and a third to do flirty… at the very least… and all in casual, business, and formal. And we need heels to go with each (stilettos = provocative, high heels = flirty, low heels = proper, etc, plus we need flats for the picnics and beach weddings etc). And we need pants that are hemmed to the right length for each of these pairs of shoes. You can’t wear black shoes with navy pants, so you’ll need to double up on all these things if you want any variety in your wardrobe. I could go on, but you get the picture.

Women’s closets are often mocked as a form of self-indulgence, shop-a-holicism, or narcissism. But this isn’t fair. Instead, if a woman is class-privileged enough, they reflect an (often unarticulated) understanding of just how complicated the rules are. If they’re not class-privileged enough, they can’t follow the rules and are punished for being, for example, “trashy” or “unprofessional.” It’s a difficult job that we impose on women and we’re all too often damned-if-we-do and damned-if-we-don’t."