Desire creates its own object.

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

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.

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

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.