I. Frost's Selected Quotations

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Hate generalizes; love is particular.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

" 'Do you love me at all?' I ask. He covers my mouth with his hand. 'Don't ask about the most important things in life' he says."

Her loneliness: the motor of her pen.

Who is the villain? Love that never dies.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Beware of the man who denounces women writers; his penis in tiny and he cannot spell.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged . . . I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Is life a wound which dreams of being healed?

I am not sure at all if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.

The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats hereslf.

There is only one story: he loved her, then stopped loving her, while she did not stop loving him.

You do not die from love you only wish you did.

Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness is the start of poetry.

I had everything I'd worked so hard for - and it somehow all seemed like ashes in my mouth.

The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.

He has kissed me. Why then do I feel so unkissed?

First he fucks them; then he annihilates them with analysis.

Jealousy makes the prick grow harder. And the cunt wetter.

You can't really write about somebody you don't love.

It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.

I keep trying to recapture myself at different priods of my life and it is impossible because even as I write, I change.

Don't sit on the razor's edge and cut your beautiful pussy.

My mouth was in it, but not my heart.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. Erica Jong Words are the only languague he cannot speak.

I am a ruin of desire and the fight against desire.

All men worth having in bed are partly beasts.

Hence the battle between the sexes: she wants him safe between her legs forever; he, being afraid he wants to stay there, flees.

Since he cannot be good, it would be easier if he were entirely bad so at least I could hate him.

O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts!

Men like nothing better than to fuck and run.

A lot of sex is just vanity, isn't it?

I long to be in love, but love annihilates - and anything less does not feel like love!

Listen to what they say at the start of a love affair; they are telling you how it will end.

There is no worse betrayal than having a lover bring another woman to your bed.

Waiting by the phone - the old female pastime - has got to be of all distaff griefs the worst.

Does the female of the species fall in love just by being fucked well?

How else dare to create, if you do not dare to destroy?

I love being fucked over and then blamed for it too.

Live or die. There are only two ways to go.

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

How can two such opposite feelings exist in the same air?

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first 10 minutes I want to go home and screw. After the first 20 minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.