A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.

Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.

We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.

Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.

All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.