What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.