A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot share without destroying our inner landscape.

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.

I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.

You really can't say things that upset someone in print and expect them to be nice and leave you their money. That's just not reasonable.

I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules.

I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction between feminism, which means women should have all that they are entitled to, all that they can do, all the opportunities that they can take advantage of they should have.