Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort

Silence is the garment of light.

I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn't care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.