The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.

We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.

Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.

A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.