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

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.

You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other.

When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?

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.

A home is very, very important to me. But I do change things around a lot.

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.