Cats are so interesting - endlessly fascinating.

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.

Art brings a message into a room. It should make us perceive in a new way - either through color, form or narrative content - something we had not perceived before... and perhaps reveal something to you about yourself.

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

I'm the girliest girl you are ever going to meet.

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.

Even death is wonderful because, as Woody Allen says, we're not going to know when it happens.