Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.

What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?

It is the artists who make the true value of the world, though at times they may have to starve to do it. They are like earthworms, turning up the soil so things can grow, eating dirt so that the rest of us may eat green shoots.

We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.

Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.

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

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.