I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.

The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.

Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love.

Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?

Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said.

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.

I'm not classically pretty; I've always been too heavy; I've had thyroid disease and it's very hard for me to lose weight - but I've always had men pursue me. I've always had that 'it' thing. God knows why. Maybe it's pheromones, I don't know.