The truly terrible thing about this life, was not knowing what you want, but only able to recognize what you do not want. You have to spend so much time and energy trying to find...

All this because one race did not have the decency to be ashamed of dealing in human flesh.

No one knows how another person feels in private.

Don’t panic. If you write, you’ll be a writer.

The best men tell you the truth because they think you can take it; the worst men either try to preserve you in some innocent state with their false protection, or are ‘brutally honest.’ When...

Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.

…brotherhood of the firstborn, which can be both a blessing and a curse: the overwhelming attention to the detail of their lives and development. The expectations that run too high: being the bridge between adults...

The worst dream of the night, when you are parted from someone you love and you do not know exactly where he is, but you know that he is in the presence of danger. You...

All you have to go on is the faith of a kiss.

Read “The Story of O.” Convince yourself that it was in fact written by a woman or someone who thinks like a woman.

That is the true challenge–to work within a narrow confine. To accept what you cannot have; that from which you cannot deviate.

Berlin was charismatic in the roguish way of a love… It was a lover who was a little dangerous in ways that didn’t always show, keeping you a bit on edge, a bit in love...

She remembered her fingers threaded through his hair and his kisses in places that made her long for him years later.

No one fights dirtier or more brutally than blood; only family knows it’s own weaknesses, the exact placement of the heart. The tragedy is that one can still live with the force of hatred, feel...

If the photographer isn’t going to pay attention to the picture he is making, that if he thinks the camera is just a machine and not an avenue of expression, then he has no business...

While she was in transit, being unattached was exhilarating, but the moment she stopped, so did the high.

Later, Jenny would say she seldom knew what she would take a picture of when she picked up a camera, that she only knew once she peered through the viewfinder, as if the photograph had...

…she eventually forgave him, because she understood him.

Among the things she said: ‘Women seem to possess all the natural gifts essential to a good portraitist… such as personality, patience, and intuition. The sitter ought to be the predominating factor in a successful...