Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.

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

I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.

the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.