When I was being photographed, I always felt very much in my own skin. That's probably one of the reasons why I enjoy being photographed.

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.

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

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

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.

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.