Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?

Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there.

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

I was born in the middle of World War II, the middle of the Holocaust; I was born when there was no declaration of human rights, when feminism was not an issue, when children were working in factories. I mean, today's world is a better place!

In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.

It's such an intimate and profound relationship that it cannot be unconditional. I can only compare the intimacy of sex with the intimacy of the mother with a newborn baby. But with a newborn baby, it is unconditional.