people will tell you were they have gone, they'll tell you where to go, but until you get there for yourself you never really know.

Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm. They cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral.

Whatever it was that I felt was the weak link in my previous project gave me inspiration for the next one.

My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I knew there was milk and toast and honey and a bowl of oranges, too.

An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child.