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.

Eating is never so simple as hunger.

When you start having lunch and actually eating, it's already over.

Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.

perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.

Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?