I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I'm quite happy to go.

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.