I do spend money. I like to spend money, on houses - on furnishing houses. And I love to give presents to people. It's just in my nature to be that way. I always spent money I had. And I always spent what I made. I'm not stingy.

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.

If you have health, you have everything.

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

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

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

I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it indicates your destiny is chaotic.