In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me understand some of the pressures on women which I was lucky enough to have escaped, perhaps because of my eccentricity or the oddness of my upbringing.

Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.

A good book is an education of the heart.