before one actually visits them, everyone tends to think of their favorite countries as one grand Disneyland filled with national monuments and historical treasures conveniently laid out for easy viewing, when what they really are filled with, of course, is people going to work, laundromats and places to buy rat poison.

I've always said that people have unrealistic expectations.

Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.

We're all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.

I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.

Marriage is such hard work. And it's full of rage and real human drama.

While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking - to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.