How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?

How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?

Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, I'll be anybody you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.

Everyone is equal and everyone is forced to participate; you can't just be a spectator.

We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.

No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank concrete basement while somebody took pictures, well, any other situation would be a piece of cake

A writer’s job is to cultivate what can go wrong.