It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Façade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.

It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.

Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes.

We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.

Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world.