You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.

You really can't say things that upset someone in print and expect them to be nice and leave you their money. That's just not reasonable.

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.

Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom of cruelty, or she may simply have confused lack of capital with heroism while searching for rescue without knowing from what.

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

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

We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.