We have all the technology to record things in the streets. Now the historians cannot twist it or change it, because we have cellular phones or video cameras, and we are filming in the streets what's going on. We have the voices of everybody recorded. There's too much recording and I think that's wonderful.

You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.

I met a guy, very exotic to me - he was blonde with blue eyes - and I just had a fling that turned out to be love. I moved to San Francisco to spend a week with him and get him out of my system; I'm still here 26 years later.

Sex is the instrument and love the music.

The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.

I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.

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