I don't want posterity, I don't want anybody to remember me in any way. I don't care about that because I'll be dead. I think the spirit will move to some other state.

Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.

...when everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars

A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape.

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

True friendship resists time, distance and silence.

He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.