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.

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.

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

I believe in marriage and fidelity.

To be pregnant has been for me each time the supreme joy ... I was doing the greatest thing in the world without having to do anything -- all I had to do was be.

...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

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.