Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.

To surrender one's vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.

What you desire you call into being.

Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.

Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.