I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.

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

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

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.