You don't write. You get out of the way.

Sex can be renounced -- but sexuality cannot. We can't avoid sexual issues by avoiding sex, or by dismissing its importance, or by showing disrespect to our own or other people's sexual feelings.

By letting go of dieting, I free up mental and emotional room. I have more space, I can move. The pursuit of another, elusive body, the body someone else says I should have, is a terrible distraction, a side-tracking that might have lasted my whole life long. By letting myself go, I go places.

You don't write. You get out of the way.

How I became a better writer was that I kept writing.

Sex is a game, a weapon, a toy, a joy, a trance, an enlightenment, a loss, a hope.

Sexual acts are one of the primary means by which we can act out our inarticulated inner lives.