Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.

Naked is the best disguise.

The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.

I can't do it. I've been here before and it's not a room with a view. The only power I have is the negative power of withdrawal. If I don't withdraw I have no power at all. A relationship where one person has no power or negative power, isn't a relationship, it's the bond between master and slave.