I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison

Romantic love was invented to manipulate women

Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy

My arrogance knows no bounds and I will make no peace today, and you should be so lucky to find a woman like me.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

Drama often obscures the real issues