Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.

When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.

It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.

writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.

If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.

A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.