I love to decorate and redecorate. Now it's called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me.

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

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 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 heart of another is a dark forest.

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.

There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone.