A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy..

A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast..

Do not think I do not realise what I am doing. I am making a composition using the following elements: the winter beach; the winter moon; the ocean; ….

For all cats have this particularity, each and every one, from the meanest alley sneaker to the proudest, whitest she that ever graced a pontiff's pi….

I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation and….

Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they’re only habits and give no clue at all to my c….

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production..

The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown..

The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers..

Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody..

And, indeed, is there not something holy about a great kitchen?... The scoured gleam of row upon row of metal vessels dangling from hooks or reposing….

There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer..

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher ….

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend wit….

Pornography is a satire on human pretensions..

I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass..

I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe..

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force.

That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in th….

She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very f….

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation..