Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt

If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If you feel blocked, write through it until you feel your creative juices flowing again. Write. Writing is what makes a writer, nothing more and nothing less.

-You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?

I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?

I think love can save the world. When we love, we completely recognize the value of the other.

Wasn't it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some reason or another, and drive his Porsche over the speed limit until he found out who he was?

I was particularly stunned by the casting of Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.