Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!

What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.

Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.

Love is love, but marriage is an investment.

Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes.

When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.

Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.