Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self is just a fire.

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in.

loneliness is not a longing for company, it is a longing for kind. And kind means people who can see you who you are, and that means they have enough intelligence and sensitivity and patience to do that.

It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior

My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.