We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.

I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to the downward and upward of their beings.

Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis teams?

one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.

Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least affected by striving for power, physical pleasure, or material profit, most liberated from any oath of duty or of constancy. With Eros the body stands naked, in friendship our spirit is denuded.

Oh, save me God, but not quite yet.

We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.