Nobody really lives in the present.
Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.
We don't say a man's ill if he's crazy about sex, if he can't get enough sex. Why should a woman be different?
It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.
There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.