Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.

I don't apologize for being sexually adventurous. Why not? It was often fun. When it wasn't - I didn't continue what wasn't pleasant.

My grandmother was very important to me. She gave me my religious education. She gave me a sense of the female side of Judaism, of the rich store of stories and legends of the women of the schtetl.

Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.

i find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people

The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals.

I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was undergoing.