My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.

My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

Sex is God's joke on the human race ... if we didn't have sex to make us ridiculous, She would have had to think up something else instead.

Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.

fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.

The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.