Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you

The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

All good art is an indiscretion.

There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.