I've never been a teacher in my life.

If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours.

Good writing is rewriting.

Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically.

The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to get dressed up for it.