The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.

what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

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

You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare

Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.