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.

You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.

Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom of cruelty, or she may simply have confused lack of capital with heroism while searching for rescue without knowing from what.

I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it.

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.

However, there probably is a slight connection between the high-wire, super sensitivity, open to everything and too much, and slightly fragile soul of the artist and the need to self-medicate, which can lead to bad trouble either in drugs, or alcohol. So it's not that there's no connection, it's just that we can't make too much of it because it isn't the addiction that's the issue, it's the fragility of some people who do artistic work, who end up in rehab somewhere or other.

I think it is a good thing to have woman friends at every stage of life. We confide in each other, we support each other, we understand each other most of the time. Of course, sometimes we are competitive or angry or distant, too. But I do think it is important not to let the main friendships slip away in the sweep of the days.