Most sex doesn’t really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that’s pretty rare.
The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
You’re not too fat; you’re just in the wrong country.
It’s important to know what you’re going to spend your life on, and the only way you’re going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.
If there’s anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it’s uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman’s best career move.
Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
I don’t believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It’s really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
One writes not by will but by surrender.
I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I’m not observant, and I don’t belong to a synagogue. I don’t go to temple on high holy days, but I’m proud to be Jewish.
If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself!
I’m not classically pretty; I’ve always been too heavy; I’ve had thyroid disease and it’s very hard for me to lose weight – but I’ve always had men pursue me. I’ve always had that ‘it’ thing. God knows why. Maybe it’s pheromones, I don’t know.
It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.
Plot is just a fancy way of saying ’and then.
It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.