It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.

When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.

Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

Shared laughter is erotic too.

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

Connections are made slowly sometimes they grow underground.

In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry a yam of a woman of butter and brass.

Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly and that is one of the sources of my writing

Long hair is considered bohemian which may be why I grew it but I keep it long because I love the way it feels part cloak part fan part mane part security blanket.

The best gift you can give is a hug one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.

We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.

Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi.

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied.

From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.