Thirty years ago, the Pandora's box of the Internet wasn't yet a fact of life, and celebrities inhabited a more remote, hard-to-reach plane.

I think that under ordinary circumstances (i.e., neither person is famous), it's already hard enough to make a long-term romantic relationship work, but add fame to the calculus.

One thing the passage of time has shown me is that you never know how you'll behave in a situation until you're in that situation yourself.

So much of what determines our happiness, I believe, is who we choose as our intimates.

Unless I'm writing trying to write about a historical figure, I don't really set out to read or research with a specific topic in mind.

The effects of fame on the not-famous people who are close to a celebrity - this is definitely a topic that continues to interest me.

Sometimes I do work on a longer manuscript in tandem with one or two shorter pieces - whether it's a short story or an essay (though I don't write many of the latter).

Mostly what ends up inspiring me and affecting my work are books by authors that I love.

When we are able to see the choices we make through the eyes of self-acceptance, we are transformed.

Well...letting the cat out of the bag is a lot easier than putting it in.

By then she was dead. In fact, she may have been dead a while ago. Physically, several seconds ago, mentally, ages ago.

Being called weird is like being called Limited Edition. Meaning youre something people dont see that often.

I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.

I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.

I'm used to being under pressure... luckily I perform well under pressure.

Occasionally, I go off the rails. I once nearly killed somebody once - it wasn't funny. I am a lunatic. The pressure of work, the pressure - everyone has a stop valve, and I don't have one.

The kind of values for which I was supposed to kill, such as democracy and national independence, were better served, I thought, through non-violent action.

The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.