There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other.

Men aren't really complicated. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they've said, when really it's obvious.

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.

All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.

If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.

My inner goddes has her sequins on and is warming up to dance the rumba.

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