To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.

I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.

Sex just as a drive, as a hormonal drive, is not very interesting.

You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.

How could one create life with someone who represented death?

Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.