I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a nascent patina of shining hairs. My earrings turned back to water and trickled down my shoulders; I shrugged the drops off my beautiful fur.

There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist.