If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

when the phone rings I too would like to hear words that might ease some of this.

I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.

Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on.

For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.