I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread and salt, on every inch of flesh and spirit.

I'm not much like myself any more.

I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.

the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.