I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many ways. I knew that I had to take care of myself, I um and I always did.

You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.

I'm not willing to sign a contract. They want everything. They want the rights to do the movie and everything else they can think of, forever. There's no limit to the contract. In this universe and universes to be discovered - I'm not making this up - this is in the contract.

From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there.

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

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

But I don't want more things than I need, either.