Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself

It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.

Evil is just sort of ultimately boring. The good thing is just complicated. It's more provocative to me and more stimulating to me.

It's bliss when you give up all that stuff that separates you from other human beings. It's hard, but you break down all that stuff.

Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.

I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.

Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.