My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.

The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara.

You should make it hard on yourself to write so you’re easier to read.

if you live in New York and you have a guest room, you have guests. So I think it's best not to have a guest room.

If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.

I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. What you don't know won't hurt you. Sleep is death without the responsibility.

What starts love is your ability to stupefy and blind yourself to the point of being able to fall in love. What stops it is waking up.