Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or anything that involved the creative process and behaving like tortured artists. ... I found financial insecurity a great aphrodisiac.

Minsk! How pissed-off that sounded! It was great. You could scare the bejayzus out of someone if you said it right.

Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.

Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me.

Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.

The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin's cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look." Claire (Watermelon)

I never wear flats. My shoes are so high that sometimes when I step out of them, people look around in confusion and ask, "Where'd she go?" and I have to say, "I'm down here.