Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.

Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.

Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.

A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.

A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or fruit are not defective; they are that.