Today's Girls Are Tomorrow's Women - And

I'm Surrounded By Young People. I'm Always Now The Oldest And The Shortest Person In The Room.

There Is No Light Without Shadow, Just As There Is No Happiness Without Pain.

If You Change The Way You Tell Your Own Story, You Can Change The Colour And Create A Life In Technicolour.

After A Few Months Without Writing, Months I've Lived Turned Outward... I Fear Going Deaf, Not Being Able To Hear The Silence.

The Idea Of The Book ["the Japanese Lover"] Came In A Conversation That I Had With A Friend Walking In The Streets Of New York. We Were Talking About Our Mothers, And I Was Telling Her How Old My Mother Was, And She Was Telling Me About Her Mother. Her Mother Was Jewish, And She Said That She Was In A Retirement Home And That She Had Had A Friend For 40 Years That Was A Japanese Gardener. This Person Had Been Very Important In My Friend's Upbringing.