Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

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.

I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.

Surviving means being born over and over.

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

Sex just as a drive, as a hormonal drive, is not very interesting.

The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.