Eating is an environmental act.
In death, as in sleep, I am all things.
All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it. . . Art [is] a form of active prayer.
Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.
A real love story is sometimes exhausting. A romance is deliberately constructed to yield a certain result; the ambiguities are trimmed out, so it's neater and more pleasing to our hearts. But you don't live a love story, you live a life.
I believe all stories are love stories, and there are kinds and kinds of love, so I will always write about love, but not necessarily romance.
Even enlightened despots don't make very good teachers.
I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.
He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
I know dead. I've been there, done that and got the freakin' T-shirt.