I don't believe in predestination - except for genetic predilections.

All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.

Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.

Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms and legs clutching him as a drowning woman might clutch another person to save her life. Don't don't don't don't leave me. DON'T LEAVE ME. As in animal copulation the frenzy is to be locked together not out of sentiment or choice but physical compulsion. As if bolts of electric current ran through both their bodies and would only release them from each other when it ceased.

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

I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.

I haven't any formal schedule, but I love to write in the morning, before breakfast. Sometimes the writing goes so smoothly that I don't take a break for many hours - and consequently have breakfast at two or three in the afternoon on good days.