Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.

When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.

Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.

Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish?

Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.

I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.