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

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.

Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.

Feminism is really the right of women to be full human beings and to not be defined only by their childbearing function. Feminism is really the right of women to be human beings. That's it, yet that's so frightening to a lot of people. A full human being wants satisfying work and love. A full human being is entitled to both, and is not simply defined by only one aspect of her being.

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?