I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.

Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.

It is the artists who make the true value of the world, though at times they may have to starve to do it. They are like earthworms, turning up the soil so things can grow, eating dirt so that the rest of us may eat green shoots.

Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.

Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.

Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.