If what we change does not change us we are playing with blocks.

Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.

I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.

Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.

Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own life as a doorway into that character's mind and emotions.

I don't apologize for being sexually adventurous. Why not? It was often fun. When it wasn't - I didn't continue what wasn't pleasant.

Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.