There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.

A woman has all too much substance in a man's eyes at the best of times. That is why men like women to be slim. Her lack of flesh negates her. The less of her there is, the less notice he need take of her. The more like a male she appears to be, the safer he feels.

Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

For that is what a child should be, and seldom is, the product of man and woman, of opposing natures, unified, however temporarily, by the amazing, circling, weaving dance of love and lust and God's involvement in it.