Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the good from the bad– including your own bad.

I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.

... if you have nothing, you are free to choose among dreams and fantasies.

In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.

One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.

for real pleasure a pleasure resort should have no one in it but its legitimate inhabitants, oneself, and perhaps one's friends.