Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.

I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.

We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body.

You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.

I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.