Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

She represents love, beauty, purity, the ideal female and the moon...and she's the mystère of jealousy, vengeance and discord, AND, on the other hand, of love, perpetual help, goodwill, health, beauty and fortune.

The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself.

It has historically been a comfort for the bourgeois and that you can read the most extreme books and not change. You can read A Christmas Carol and not change in any way.

I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.

The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.

A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18. It gets harder the older you get, as you make different life choices, as people say in America. A lot of women's friendships begin to founder.