Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.

Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.

The soul is awakened through service.

Images are ... a kind of emotional shorthand.

Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

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