Oh, I know all about my mother and me,' you may say. 'All that business with my mother was over years ago.' You don't and it wasn't.

To say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.

Sexuality is the great field of battle between biology and society.

Separation is not the end of love; it creates love.

Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life.

I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.