When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.

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

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Most sex is not really intimate.

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?