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.

Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes.

You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it.

Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.

Love gives without taking