I don't tell clients what to do. I don't even really tell them what the future is.

My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book.

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

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.

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.

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.

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.