She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.

When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.