To give the best of yourself, to be ready to please is OK for a while. But people expect certain things from you, and you have to go beyond that and say, no.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.

The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

Sometimes there is a great intimacy between women without any homosexuality. This is something that men are less likely to understand, because for them sensuality means sexual. It doesn't excite us to imagine two men together.

All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.