If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.

Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Images are ... a kind of emotional shorthand.

It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.

I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.

Solitude is considered un-American.