I mean, many times your creative problem is accidentally your personal problem, but it's not quite the same.

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.

A wild appreciation of men and women . . . who passionately and fearlessly and recklessly redefine romance. . . . The passionate creatures who refuse to play it safe and settle down now have an intelligent, like-minded advocate.

I don't behave the way people necessarily want me to, but I tried behaving that other way for a short period of time and it didn't take.

I don't think that I can be settled and I don't think that I would ever want to be.

There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.