If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.

For Mum, life was fundamentally hell. You went blind, you got raped, people forgot your birthday, Nixon got elected, your husband fled with a blonde from Beckenham, and then you got old, you couldn't walk and you died.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.

I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.