I guess I am a feminist of sorts. I love women so much, and I celebrate the feminine in me because I appreciate it so much.

When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.

In America there's a tendency to write the same book over and over because that's what sells. So in a way, my success in America has come at the expense of what I do. I haven't sold out, and I haven't taken the popular road to writing a best-selling book. I've really bucked the system. So it was necessary for me not to go and find the easy fans, the ones who want something digestible and fast with a happy ending that they can read over and over again no matter how many different books it is. I had to find fans who really wanted to think. Worldwide they all have that in common.

I'm grateful for the road. It gets me in shape. I feel like I'm 25 years old after ther first or second week.

I'm very sensual and very rhythm-oriented and into poetry. Women can feel that.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.