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 love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

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.

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

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.

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

I don't like cold people at all. It makes me feel really insecure.