[My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write.

One arrives at a recognition that one needs to be distracted.

"Time" does not mean "occasion."

I had a couple of Asian readers and other folks tell me, "Oh, you have a lot of sex in your writing."

In the same way, the people whom I most abhor, I abhor them for elements that I abhor in myself.

I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality.

I always wanted to be pretty as a girl, although I believed it was not possible.