I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation and a touch of megalomania can be comforting around five on a November afternoon when you haven't seen anybody all day.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.

The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.