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

I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.

When a man angers you, he conquers you.

The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.

I'm losing the definition now of politics. I sort of don't know what that is anymore. People say politically correct, I don't know what that means. I know what they think they mean.

I wish I’d a knowed more people. I would of loved ‘em all. If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.