Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.

Art is always an energy exchange.

What I discovered was is that it's rare to find a person that you feel very intimate with, and you can sleep with lots of people and not find what you're looking for.

I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.

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

Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.

She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.