The part we play is not as we want it, but as we are made-with the genitals God gave us.

The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it.

There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.

I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help.

I've finally learned not to want things I cannot have.

Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of their need.

None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.

Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.

To fear the bourgeois is bourgeois.

Wouldn't a laugh serve us better than to battle it out with our mortal souls?

To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It is finally the only story we give to someone we love.

It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done.

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

Interest makes some people blind and others quick-sighted.

No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.

August is a month when if it is hot weather it is really very hot.

I love the idea of bringing my work to the general public, not just people who go to gallery openings.

An OBE is what you get if you clean the toilets well at King's Cross station.

Your job as a scientist is to figure out how you're fooling yourself.

Be focused on process and not outcome

I prefer to record all traumas and save them for later, playing them over and over so they can haunt me for a disproportionate number of weeks to come. It's very healthy.