Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.

Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.

If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.

Whenever I go anywhere but Italy for a vacation, I always feel vaguely disappointed, as if I have made a mistake.

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.

Poetry is fired by love.