I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.

Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind

My guess is that she is uncomfortable in such an intransigent world but is unable to live accordingly to her own desire.

No amount of promises can guarantee love