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.

In memory Venice is always magic.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Food is my drug of choice.

Weather creates character.

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.