“Sigmund Freud makes people irritable. Whenever someone mentions Freud,...” — Siri Hustvedt Quote

“Sigmund Freud makes people irritable. Whenever someone mentions Freud, say, at a dinner party, I see eyes roll and listen to the nasty remarks that follow.”

“Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.”

“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”

“There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and it was in a house that you wished you'd owned with people that you wish you knew. It was life seen through a very privileged way.”

“I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson's show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth at dinner parties. It was very blousy.”

“My typical Saturday night is a great solo dinner at one of my favorite restaurants. I like to talk to the restaurant staff while I eat, then come home, finish up some work until midnight, and then play the keyboard until I'm ready to sleep.”