I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you. - Erica Jong

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

Righteousness has no place in literature. Of course the keen observer of her culture will feel deeply about the oppression she sees around her, the inhumanity of man to man, of man to woman, but her vision of it must be essentially personal, not abstractly political.

I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world...