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

Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.

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

I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.

I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.

art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.