Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.

That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.

Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.

Fiction is an improvement on life

I wanted the whole world or nothing.

purple does something strange to me

I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.