Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent.
The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.
For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.
I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.
Life isn't about what you get, it's about what you DO with what you get.
I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I'm not sure why we have to grow up and get embarrassed about it.
I watch people from the top of buses who don't know they're being watched. It's quite fascinating.
Every time I put a collection together I'd scrap it because there was no "meaning," until I wrote about the two black men - friends - in the beginning of the book. So much of their experience was ABOUT trying to find friends in the authorsartists I wrote about - subjects that wereare a source of comfort, somehow, since none of them "fit," either
The world is certainty a sudden place.
I dont know if Im a heartthrob or if I want to be one! I heard that I get the most fan mail. Its very flattering, and lovely to be popular with the public.