In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself!

Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.

fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.

the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.

O what is it about having one's own Babe upon one's Hip that makes a Woman wish to go home to her Mother? A Desire to say: 'Look, the Circle is compleat'? A Desire to say: 'Look, I have cross'd the Divide and now am more like you'? A Desire to say: 'Look, this Babe I offer you is my most precious Gift'?

Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?

Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.