I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?

What I discovered was is that it's rare to find a person that you feel very intimate with, and you can sleep with lots of people and not find what you're looking for.

We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.

Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job.