Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.

That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.

Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.

I think that it's important for people to read philosophy and literature is not because I think everyone should be a well-rounded human being, but because it will help you think better about what you are doing.