I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on.

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

Home is where your books are.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

A baby's mother also needs a mother.

Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.

what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.