I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all.

Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.

What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?

I can't do it. I've been here before and it's not a room with a view. The only power I have is the negative power of withdrawal. If I don't withdraw I have no power at all. A relationship where one person has no power or negative power, isn't a relationship, it's the bond between master and slave.

We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.

I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There is a myth that writers are bohemian and do what they like in their own way. Real writers are the most organized people on the planet. You have to be. You’re doing the work and running your own business as well. It’s an incredibly organized state. [Also reading]…one of the things reading does do is discipline your mind. There are no writers who are not readers.

Slightest accidents open up new worlds.