It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was.

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

Age protects love not, but love protects up to a certain degree before age.

My aim in life is not to judge.