Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.
Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.
What’s the point of prolonging your life if you don’t enjoy it? It’s your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.
Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I’m giving them my share.
In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it’s a fact of life.
Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers.
I’m not a person who worries too much about what I’ve done.
Familiarity breeds consent.
Loving’s pretty easy. It’s letting someone love you that’s hard.
Love is the wild card of existence.
I believe you are your work. Don’t trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That’s a rotten bargain.
I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I’ll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
There hasn’t been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven’t benefited by the lives of the ancients.