Intimacy is a difficult art.

As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.

Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

For nothing was simply one thing.

The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.