We invent what we love and what we fear.

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.

All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let's just leave them be. Don't judge them. You are not superior to them - don't put them down.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one.

There's nothing as scary as the future.

I have lots of notebooks around, because one great advantage of writing by hand-in addition to how much it slows you down-is that it makes me write at the speed that I feel I should be composing, rather than faster than I can think, which is what happens to me on any keyboard.