Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.

Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."

I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.

Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.

Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.