Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.

Love gives without taking

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

In loving life you love what can't survive.

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.

Sex is God's joke on the human race ... if we didn't have sex to make us ridiculous, She would have had to think up something else instead.