I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.

Some of us are born with a sense of loss. It is not acquired as we grow. It is already there from the beginning, and it pervades us throughout our lives.

To be happy--one must find one's bliss

I don't read anything about myself. As a child, there was something in me that was just instinctive. I want to be clear in my spirit, and I don't want to be blocked by things that get inside of you and kill you.

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.

I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.

If you have health, you have everything.