Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot be communicated to others.

And that's the insult of it, how always it comes back to a woman being a "good" mother in the world's eyes or a "bad" mother, how everything in a woman's life is funneled through her body between her legs.

I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high, poetic quality of Twitter - it lends itself to a surreal sort of self-expression.

The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.