Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.

You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.

Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.

Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.

We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.

Writing is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling place of the other in me.

We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.

The only book that is worth writing is the one we don’t have the courage or strength to write. The book that hurts us (we who are writing), that makes us tremble, redden, bleed

Everything ends with flowers.

I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.

I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things together and bring them back to life

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Behold we count them happy which endure.

When I was in my early to mid-teens, that was a very heavy diet of science fiction and fantasy, so those were the kinds of books I tended to imagine writing someday, or even began to try to write.

Now I'm searching for a slightly overweight, single, childless woman who doesn't have a date and isn't too depressing to be around. It's getting harder to find a girlfriend than a boyfriend.

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed and gratefully appreciated, they must be interrupted so the person can see that not having them is not as good as having them.

Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

What I've found is that the religion that matters, the real religion is love.

I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old.

The price of success is much lower than the price of failure.