What madness! Yet she would do it, if she could force herself. She'd become, she believed, a stronger person: a willful, resolute. Like the man who adored her, reckless.

If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

That is the mystery: Reading Henry James can yield prose that is contrary to James, yet inspired by him. Who can understand this?

An actress wants to be seen. An actress wants to be loved. By multitudes of people, not just one lone man.

Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.