The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent reaction, contradiction, and teasing, the refusal to answer questions but the love of putting them, and all the strong spices of human relationship which bore a relation to black pepper, paprika, soybean sauce, ketchup and red peppers.

New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.

You fall in love with people's minds.

atrophy of feeling creates criminals.

Tropical nights are hammocks for lovers.

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.