In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they?

You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for.

I once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting.

I move between San Francisco and Paris... I have a wonderful beach house in California.

I studied literature design and fashion design.

People are so obsessed with that these days. As long as you're healthy, what difference do a few pounds make? Crazy diets. Thirteen-year-old girls on magazine covers who wind up in hospitals because they're so anorexic. Real women don't look like that. And who wants them to? No one wants a woman who looks sick or like she;s been from a refugee camp.