Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.

A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

You don't die in the United States, you underachieve.