People always think their world is coming to an end if they're exposed, and of course it isn't coming to an end; it goes right on exactly the way it always was.

It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.

I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.

I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds.

People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.

Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.

Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.