Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.

For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

The mammary fixation is the most American of the sex fetishes.

Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body, the possibility that the magnet that attaches us to a context in the world can lose its grip.