You have the health you deserve.

The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

With women the best aphrodisiac is words.

When my daughter Paula died, I was in the deepest pain, and my mother said, "This kind of sorrow is like a long, narrow, dark channel. You have to walk this channel alone and be sure that there is light at the other ending. Just keep walking."

They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.

write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.