I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.

A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.

Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. the lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glance of the lover’s inward eyes.

Here I am not the one to throw out. No one steals my warmth and shoes because I am small. No one handles my backside. No one whinnies like sheep or goat because I drop in fear and weakness. No one screams at the sight of me. No one watches my body for how it is unseemly. With you my body is pleasure is safe is belonging. I can never not have you have me.

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.