It's much easier to wear your pain on the outside.

Any relationship that you have is about negotiation - anything - whether there is a written contract or not.

So you've just slept with him, given him your virginity, a man who doesn't love you. In fact, he has odd ideas about you, wants to make you some sort of kinky sex slave.

I do not look at the world in terms of black and white - and I find people who do rather scary. I think it's all shades of grey.

I don't think [Fifty Shades of Grey is] a model for anything. Except maybe in bed.

I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can't love me

I think virgins are far more interesting to write about. If we've been around the block a few times, we know what to expect. Not so with virgins.