I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.

A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.

I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.

A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.

Sadness was a very heavy thing.

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.

Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us