Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.

The sexuality doesn't end. It really doesn't. You're sexual your whole life, if you're a sexual person.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.

Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.

Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.

each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.