I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

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

Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

Adolescence is like cactus.

To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.

Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.

I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly.