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

A wet dream in the mind of New York.

Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.

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