I think we’re [men and women] more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.

I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.

Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.

I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.

Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.

I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.

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