We must.. We must bring our own light to the darkness

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.

Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.

To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired.

If I have any advice to anybody it's this: take up watercolor painting.