Why does life need evidence of life?

I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

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

As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.