The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one.

- Francine Du Plessix Gray

I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to the downward an…

- Francine Du Plessix Gray

Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it.

- Francine Du Plessix Gray

I was just reviewed by Robert Gottlieb, who was my editor at 'The New Yorker,' and he sort of wondered at the fact that I still need to exorcise my p…

- Francine Du Plessix Gray

One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting truth…

- Francine Du Plessix Gray

The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us... a capacity for sharing, generosit…

- Francine Du Plessix Gray

I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny.

- Francine Du Plessix Gray

Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least affected by striving for power,…

- Francine Du Plessix Gray

one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.

- Francine Du Plessix Gray