I used to envy people who had written books, the way I think women envy other women who've had babies. I was resentful, shy, and inhibited around peo….

There is something very attractive about blonds, especially for brunettes. Its been said that blonds are loved and brunettes do the loving..

Paris is the only place where I feel that I lead a life that I can call my own..

I love being in borrowed houses. I love being a bit out of my context. I miss my context dreadfully, but I'm excited by that..

I get very weird and defensive about what I'm working on - I wouldn't even tell my secretary what the next page of my novel was about..

With short hair you begin to crave pearl necklaces, long earrings, and a variety of sunglasses. Short hair removes obvious femininity and replaces it….

The Germans have a wonderful combination of pathos, energy, and humor. They are like Californians with an education..

Practically everything I did as an experiment while I was working on the book made me feel cold, angry, and decidedly peculiar. Clinical. Because I w….

When you're writing, you're demented, alone, and full of doubt. It feels dangerous..

I always find myself loathing what I've just been before - the person who was living in the apartment that I just left, the person I was a year befor….

To me, falling in love is the first step in losing my confidence. If I'm in love with somebody, I think that obviously he must have other people in h….

I'd like to live in Paris, New York, and Los Angeles all at the same time..

The thing about commuting internationally is that you have to be a lawyer or an airline steward to do it successfully..

My worst image of myself is me sitting on a bed, smoking a cigarette, waiting for a phone call and thinking thoughts that don't join together..

I'm scared that if I collaborated on something with somebody, I would be in some way losing my own contact with what I was going and tempting fate..

I was a very polite schoolgirl who did her work very well and hid under tables. I'd hate to think I haven't changed at all..

I only envy as basic old sexual jealousy..