Sicily is more beautiful than any woman.

I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.

Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies.

But I know what I like.' She smiled, and et the cat drop to the floor. 'It's like Tiffany's,'she said. 'Not that I give a hoot about jewellery. Diamonds, yes. But it's tacky to wear diamonds before you're forty; and even that's risky.

I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts.

And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.

One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation... I'm here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards - and, of course, the whip God gave me.