I'm not classically pretty; I've always been too heavy; I've had thyroid disease and it's very hard for me to lose weight - but I've always had men pursue me. I've always had that 'it' thing. God knows why. Maybe it's pheromones, I don't know.

Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.

I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.

I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.

I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.

They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.

Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.