Success is often harder to take than failure.

... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.

I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.

Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.

Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

[Sex] is something big and cosmic. What else do we have? There's only birth and death and the union of two people - and sex is the only one that happens to us more than once.

There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you're doing.