I have some women friends but I prefer men. Dont trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

What we forgot as children is that our parents are children, also. The child in them has not been satisfied or met or loved, often.

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.

For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with the palm of your hand... felt it, strands of hair, with your fingers, touched it as if it were cloth, the way a child touches its favorite surfaces.