if we begin on the men, there is no stopping. We must love them when we can.

I don't think a person should take herself seriously unless she is alone.

Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.

writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts.

In an age in which greed and lust stalk the land like some Biblical plague, it is easy to view sex as just one more thing to be had. It is the mythos of moderns.

Love, like alcoholism, comes to a point of no return.

Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.