it is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night.

All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.

Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.

Promiscuity is the death of love.

It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it.

You have to be lonely to be a writer

I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.