We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.

I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.

Sometimes I feel so stupid and dull and uncreative that I am amazed when people tell me differently.

Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.

I don't see what women see in other women," I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man?" Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, "Tenderness.