Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal.

I like to repaint rooms, to redecorate. My dream would be to have pieds-à-terre in various places.

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

I think something wonderful is going to happen to me. Maybe tomorrow. The phone can ring and your whole life can change.

When I'm traveling to promote my book, I feel like an artful impostor. What I really am is when I'm in my (painter's) studio and when I'm writing. With actors, it's the same thing. They're kind of artful impostors in public. When you get to know them, they're different people.

In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.

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