I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.

When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.

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.

Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.

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

Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.

Poetry is fired by love.