I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.

I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.

I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.

I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.

Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.

Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.