I'll always remain friends with men I've been in love with. Each one gave me so much, in so many ways.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.

I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.

The heart of another is a dark forest.

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.

The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.

One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.