If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a lock when he touched me, I lose everything.

I am more or less reading all the time.

Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it.

I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.

Like all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth.

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

When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.