When I wrote, I felt better, as if I had remade the world all of a piece, the way I wanted it to be, not the way it was.

Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.

A person has to be strong in life. A person must practice strength, even if they don't feel it.

When I write I am the real me.

Let me say the good are often punished unfairly.

No one is a virgin, because life has screwed us all.

Love is like light and there are two kinds, the bursting fireworks of the moment and the solid, fixed stars that sometimes become obscured in the heavens, but are always there, year after year, for a lifetime.