Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.

That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

If you lose sight of the smaller accomplishments, you end up with an imbalance in your life.

I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.

In order to keep my creativity alive, I just try to enjoy life to the fullest.

We are the only living creatures who can create a context, and as far as we know, everything else can only follow a context, without recognizing the context as such. Herein lies the source of creativity and the genuinely new.

I think, for a long time, people thought I was a figment of Phil Spector's imagination because they knew The Crystals, they knew The Ronettes, they knew Bob B. Sox and the Blue Jeans, but had never had met Darlene Love.