it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.

Insanity is a lack of proportion.

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

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.

The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.

Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.