Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.

For years they have been using the role of 'sex object' as a cover while they spied out the land.

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

We don't simply read books. We become them.

There are few things more subtly distressing than an inappropriate gift from someone close to you.