A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

I myself have perceived women's actions as more aggressive than I would have in men because I too am walking around with my own biases. The way to fight them is to become conscious of them.

All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.

Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.

Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.

The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built from emotionally colored memories.