The hunger for attention is usually a result of low self-esteem and the lack of unconditional self-love.

We remember though all the firelit glowOf a great hearth's gleam and glare, And we looked for a space at each happy faceAnd the love that was written there.

Giving is normal and anybody can give but to sacrifice during giving is the matter!

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit...

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.

When I die there is nobody to take my place.

You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.