Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.

I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.

I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.

Solitude is considered un-American.

art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.