The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.

There was some justice in his pain

My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth.