Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so when it does, it feels a little unjust.

Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.

As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.

Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.

For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must. . . .

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so when it does, it feels a little unjust.