Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.

A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.

I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?

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

Being a daughter is only half the equation; bearing one is the other.

I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.