I used to be able to summon up scenes at will, but now aging memory is so busy weeding its own garden that… — Gore Vidal

Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.

Anais Nin gave me my most original, or so I thought, creation.As I read Incest, I realized that something which I had always taken to be unique, the voice of Myra Breckinridge, was actually that of Anaïs in all the flowing megalomania of the diaries. Of course, I had not read the diaries then, but even so, if only for that one thundering voice, I am forever in her debt.