For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

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 primates.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

Link says if a girl says not to get her a birthday present that means get me a birthday present and make sure it’s jewelry.

He puffed out his pigeon chest and waddled across the room towards me. With his feet pointing outwards, he looked like a fat duck with a grievance.

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

There's definitely ways to get your anger out and not have to yell and kick and scream and fight people. That's not my jam. That's never how I've been.

[The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth.

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth

Joan Mitchell, Joan Baez, Judy Collins - that was my mom's era.

When I went to work in a studio, I took my pride and made a nice little ball of it and threw it right out the window.

The Washington bureaucracy is too arrogant and imperial.

What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.