The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain.

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.

When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."