He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.

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

Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well.

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

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. . . . Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.