But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.

If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.

To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole.

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

The internet is 95 percent porn and spam

His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.

In the early fight for women's rights, the point was not that women were morally superior or better. The conversation was about the difference between men and women - power, privilege, voting rights, etc. Unfortunately, it quickly moved to the "women are better" argument. If this were true in life or in fiction, we wouldn't have any dark or deep characters. We wouldn't have any Salomes, Carmens, Ophelias. We wouldn't have any jealousy or passion.