I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.

If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.

When God made man she was practicing.

A narcissism shared by two.

Love is the wild card of existence.

I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.

If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.