Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.

I don't think that if I had spent the time that I was in, say, Belgrade, writing about my time in Trieste, which is where I had just been, that would have been productive. I told myself: take extensive notes while you're there, do the research part of it, and then pray, pray, the muses will be available when the actual 'ready' happens.

I don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot.

Once you leave, you're no longer of that country, but you are never actually of the country that you go to, and if you go back, you're not anywhere. You never belong to anything.

Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.

I believe in free will.

Talk to people who know more than you. I feel like we're in this stupid sea of opinion, like "My opinion is valid because it's mine and I have it."